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. > *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 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ 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: %(user_address)s
