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

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:01:49 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> 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 

These boxes are small form factor machines and only have two PCI slots
on a riser card. No AGP slots, so no option of alternitive video cards,
unless with use PCI video cards (are such cards even available?).

> 

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