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 23:33 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed:

> 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?).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-ATI-Radeon-9200-Features-Up-to-128MB-of-DDR-PCI-Graphics-Card-/230805145505?forcev4exp=true&forceRpt=true
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Diamond-Multimedia-ATI-Radeon-9200SE-128MB-DDR-PCI-graphics-card-DVI-VGA-/280952813779?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item416a17b8d3

They do, but whether they're new enough to support 16:9 modes other than 
1920x1080, if that, may take some digging to find out. 1920x1080 as a HDTV 
standard mode is actually quite old, while newer 1280x800, 1366x768, 
1440x900, 1600x900 & 1680x1050 modes require newer chips to provide required 
video BIOS mode support. New PCI cards still are made, but could well be cost 
ineffective for your situation. It might be significantly cheaper to trade 
out those widescreens for widely available though sometimes tricky to locate 
1280x1024s, if you can't make those 845Gs do what you need.
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