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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 24 Sep 2012 16:07:26 -0400 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:31 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
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> > If <hostname> is longer than 33 characers, the server can't locate/open
> > the config file. I'm guessing someone is using a fixed size buffer (#1
> > nono!) that is not big enough.  Yes, some of use use long and meaningful
> > domain and host names...
> 
> The hostname buffer is a fixed length anyway, see man gethostname.  But
> that you're seeing truncation to 33 bytes is certainly a server bug, I
> think the MAXHOSTNAMELEN code in hw/xfree86/parser/scan.c should just be
> talking about HOST_NAME_MAX like the gethostname man page suggests.

Right.  HOST_NAME_MAX == 64 on my machine, and allowing for 'xorg.conf.'
yields 74 +1 for the NUL byte.  The buffer *ought* to be at lease 75
bytes. It *appearently* is only 44 bytes long or something like that,

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> - ajax
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