If you ready for some fun, CentOS 7 is out and into its third revision.
Did I miss the discussion about the drivers from NVIDIA? I am using them
with new and old hardware(different machines).
A bit tricky to get working and there are different drivers for legacy
cards and newer cards.
I had trouble with the nouveau driver but it may have been me or may
have been an early version.
CentOS 7 runs well but it does have a lot of changes to the tools that
one got used to in CentOS 5 and 6.
It is supposed to be a better workstation OS.
I am still running 5 and 6 on some production machines.
I am not using my units as workstations but like to have the GUI working
well in case I have some maintenance activities that are easier in the GUI.
Ron
On 04/12/2015 10:30 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:32:59 +1000 Dave Airlie <airl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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
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