Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Are you saying it worked right in 5.x? If that's the case, why not wait until 2017 for something else?
Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25. Turning it down is not an option.
Did it do that under 5.x, or did you ever have it in production?
It's worked for years. I don't think we had any problems on some of the same servers under 5.x. With 6, we had some problems with half or more of the screen being green. I just had it happen again, a few weeks ago;
the
workaround was to go from 640x480 to 320x240. That's the one that's started complaining about buffer overflow, though the videos are fine.
The price is still right for CentOS 5.x... Why not reinstall and ignore it for another 3 years? Even if RH backports the breakage to the older driver you could probably keep using an older module.
We're trying to get rid of all 5.x servers, either by upgrade, or surplusing the hardware. We could, I suppose, set up some ancient boxes; of course, they'd have to be on ups's (the power blips every bloody day in this building, usually early morning), and it's a waste to run a rackmount server for just that... and there'd have to be one in each room.
And my manager feels, I guess, that he has the budget, if we can find something in our price range.
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