[CentOS] Problems with widescreen (16:9) under CentOS 5 w/ xorg-x11-drv-i810-1.6.5-9.40.el5
Keith Roberts
keith at karsites.net
Sun Sep 23 10:03:54 UTC 2012
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Robert Heller wrote:
*snipped*
> These machine boot off the network and then mount their root (/), /usr,
> and /home file systems via NFS from the server and function otherwise
> as normal workstations. And they work great with 4:3 monitors.
> Recently, because of new cataloging and circulation software which
> seems to have been designed by (open source) developers who probably
> have new widescreen monitors on their machines, we have put widescreen
> (16:9) monitors on three of the machines (various menus and toolbars
> don't fit on a 4:3 monitor, even at 1280x1024 [19-20" monitor]). But
> we are having some problems getting the proper aspect ratio (or even a
> display at all) on two of the three.
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Hi Rob.
What desktop GUI are these machines using?
Is there some way you get each machine to use it's own
custom xorg.conf file, that you can tweak for each
particular machine?
I use this this in my PC running Centos 5.8 32 bit,
and XFCE desktop, to give me a tall virtual screen that I
can scroll around vertically:
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Monitor 1024x768"
HorizSync 31.5 - 61.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nv"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Virtual 800 1800
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Kind Regards,
Keith
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