Driver for monitor ACER KA272 Abi

[javierja2000]

Hello. Is there any driver for this terminal model or compatible for CentOS7?. Thanks.

[TrevorH]

It's not the monitor, it's the graphics card it is attached to. Run lspci -nn | grep -i vga and if that doesn't tell you what driver you need then post the output here.

[javierja2000]

Thanks for your information.
I wrote the command and this is the response:
[root@localhost ~]# lspci -mm | grep -i vga
00:02.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Intel Corporation" "Device 4692" -r0c "ASRock Incorporation" "Device 4692"

OK. And now ...?

[javierja2000]

Sorry.
This is the response:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -nn | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:4692] (rev 0c)
[root@localhost ~]# ^C

What am I supposed to do now?
Thanks

[TrevorH]

Run a more recent distro than CentOS 7?

That video card is "Alder Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730]" which means you are trying to run a nearly 10 year old distro on hardware from 2022 or 2023. CentOS 7 was released in 2014 and got new hardware support for the first 5 years of its life so you should be OK on hardware manufactured prior to 2019 (2018 to be safe!) but trying to run something that's 10 years old on a machine that's less than a year old is not going to work.

If you must have CentOS 7 then I suspect your only option is to install a newer distro and then run CentOS 7 as a VM.

In any case, CentOS 7 only has about 9 months of life left so it is pretty pointless trying to install it on new machines now as you will be repeating the process in a few months when it goes EOL.

[javierja2000]

The problem is that I must have CentOS7 installed for a year since I belong to a University and they want it installed for research purposes. Thanks a lot.

[jlehtone]

... install a newer distro and then run CentOS 7 as a VM.

This fulfills the "must have 7" requirement ... even though you will have also a "second machine".


"Research purposes" (except perhaps archeology) tends to desire bleeding edge.

[TrevorH]

Are they researching security and how easy it is to exploit an old and unmaintained system?

[javierja2000]

No, no ...