Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:31 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: If hostname is longer than 33 characers, the server can't locate/open the config file. I'm guessing someone is using a fixed size buffer (#1 nono!) that is not big enough. Yes, some of use use long and meaningful domain and host

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:07:26 -0400 Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:31 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: If hostname is longer than 33 characers, the server can't locate/open the config file. I'm guessing someone is using a fixed size buffer (#1 nono!) that is

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-23 Thread Alex Deucher
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-09-22 23:33 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed: These boxes are small form factor machines and only have two PCI slots on a riser card. No AGP slots, so no option of alternitive video cards, unless with use PCI

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-23 08:59 (GMT-0400) Alex Deucher composed: The radeon driver does not depend on the the vesa mode list. It can natively program just about any mode supported by the monitor. This seems to imply the Intel driver does not, and make me wonder why it doesn't. Which way do the Nouveau

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-23 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:21:57 -0400 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-09-23 08:59 (GMT-0400) Alex Deucher composed: The radeon driver does not depend on the the vesa mode list. It can natively program just about any mode supported by the monitor. This seems to imply the

Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Robert Heller
I am the tech guy for a local library. We have a network containing several diskless workstations. The hardware are these P4 boxes: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SAMBA845V-24-4-Rcat=SYS (We have inserted additional memory, bringing most of the machines up to 1.25Gig of memory, and

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Adam Jackson
On 9/22/12 5:55 PM, Robert Heller wrote: First of all, using the VGA connection, the X server *refuses* to use any Modeline that is not a 4:3 aspect ratio. It seems that the X server presumes that *all* VGA connected monitors are 4:3. (All three of the new wide screen monitors do have 15-pin

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-22 20:01 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: On 2012-09-22 17:55 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed: I am the tech guy for a local library... (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product: Intel(r)845G/845GL/845GE/845GV Graphics Controller (II) I810(0): VESA VBE OEM Product Rev: Hardware

Re: Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

2012-09-22 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-22 23:33 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed: These boxes are small form factor machines and only have two PCI slots on a riser card. No AGP slots, so no option of alternitive video cards, unless with use PCI video cards (are such cards even available?).