At Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:27:22 -0500 Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> 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. > > > *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 hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ 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
