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 20:01 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed:

> 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
>

BTW, installing an AGP card constitutes a RAM upgrade, as 845G chips 
use/share main motherboard RAM.
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