At Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:32:59 +1000 Dave Airlie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 4 December 2015 at 12:27, Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > > At Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:27:22 -0500 Felix Miata <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Robert Heller composed on 2015-12-03 16:00 (UTC-0500): > >> > >> > I use a distro with long term support. > >> > >> Not without a price. What you have is hardware technology that is more > >> advanced than the foundation on which that support is built. A GeForce 8200 > >> needs either the FOSS nouveau driver, which seems to be missing from CentOS > >> 5, or the proprietary NVidia driver. VESA is a low technology fallback > >> driver > >> wholly incapable of properly supporting widescreen displays. AFAICT, > >> there's > >> no amount of xorg.conf or xrandr twiddling you can do to overcome the > >> shortcomings of a fallback driver. > > > > The video chipset has been working fine with the CentOS software, with a 4:3 > > monitor. The (available) proprietary NVidia driver won't work with a Xen > > kernel. > > The graphics card BIOS contains the modes that vesa can use. It doesn't have > widescreen modes in it. The below 3 choices are yours. > > CentOS6 should drive things better in theory. I guess I will have to upgade to CentOS 6... > > Dave. > > > >> > >> > *I* have better things to do than > >> > spend all of my time dealing with incompatible updates every few months. > >> > >> You have 3 choices that I can see: > >> > >> 1-upgrade software to the technology level of your hardware (nouveau > >> driver, > >> likely requiring KMS kernel) > >> > >> 2-backlevel your video hardware (either supported gfxcard, or supported 4:3 > >> or 5:4 aspect display) > >> > >> 3-suffer a standard aspect video mode on your widescreen display > > > > -- > > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > > [email protected] -- Webhosting Services > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected]: X.Org support > > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: %(user_address)s > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
