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 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
BTW, installing an AGP card constitutes a RAM upgrade, as 845G chips use/share main motherboard RAM.
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