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

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:21:57 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> On 2012-09-23 08:59 (GMT-0400) Alex Deucher composed:
> 
> > The radeon driver does not depend on the the vesa mode list.  It can
> > natively program just about any mode supported by the monitor.
> 
> This seems to imply the Intel driver does not, and make me wonder why it 
> doesn't. Which way do the Nouveau and MGA drivers swing?

It has been suggested (elsewhere in this thread) that the i810 driver
depends on the vesa mode list, but the intel driver does not.

My next option will be to change the config files to use the intel
driver as opposed to the i810 driver (which is what the original
configuration picked automagically).


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