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

[Alex Deucher]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2012-09-22 23:33 (GMT-0400) Robert Heller composed:
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>> 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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> 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
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> 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.

The radeon driver does not depend on the the vesa mode list.  It can
natively program just about any mode supported by the monitor.

Alex