At Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:01:49 -0400 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 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 Version 0.0 > > (II) I810(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 845G > > (--) I810(0): Chipset: "845G"... > > The 845G has been a troublesome video chip, probably the worst widely used > chip: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345 > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=62960 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692293 > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709863 > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1594 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/930553 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-nv/+bug/455084 > > Looking through those bugs you might find a clue to a solution. I have two > working 845G systems, but I don't try to use them with non-4:3 displays or > with CentOS, so there's probably little more help I can give given what Adam > Jackson already wrote in thread. > > Most of the 845G systems I've run across include AGP slots. Dell equipped > many of its 845G Optiplex machines with Radeon 7500 AGP cards. There are many > cheap new and used AGP cards around that do support widescreen modes, e.g. > http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=9250-AGP-128-PB&cat=VCD > http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATI-Technologies-ATI-Radeon-7500-100-711014-64-MB-DDR-SDRAM-AGP-4x-Graphics-/140851713660?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item20cb6a967c > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Technology-ATI-Radeon-9250-100582-128-MB-DDR-SDRAM-AGP-8x-Graphics-/140852649792?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item20cb78df40 > 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?). > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com