On 4 December 2015 at 12:27, Robert Heller <hel...@deepsoft.com> wrote: > 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.
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. 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 > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
