Uncompatible Systems

Building a CentOS graphics workstation for previsulation

Got a nice 2 way AMD64 workstation with an ATI R350 video card. Old hardware but better than anything else I have for the previs work. CentOS is...well it's interesting. The video card worked by default for GLX mode and the monitor resolution was auto detected to 1280x1024.

There are a lot of missing pieces, most of which are related to software. CentOS has a much more conservative selection of packages then I'm used to. Notable differences from Debian:

• Gimp 2.2
• Missing ffmpeg
• Missing Inkscape
• 2.6.18 kernel

There are wacom tablet drivers and userland utilities to configure the tablet, though Gnome provides no configuration panel, therefore manual editing of xorg.conf and command line tablet calibration will be required.

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Written on 2009-04-24 13:05:47 UTC

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