Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5

[Felix Miata]

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 

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