Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
From: m.roth@5-cent.us [mailto:m.roth@5-cent.us]
John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/3/2015 8:11 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/3/2015 7:33 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Well, I got my user back to being able to use his system, but I've still got one issue: it's running on the VESA driver - there is *no* Catalyst build for this monitor, for CentOS 7. From a lot of googling, nothing's been done since the summer of '14 (lspci reports it as a FirePro V3900).
Any thoughts, or pointers, as to if/how I can get X - he's running KDE - to see the full width of the monitor, not just about 4" less, or is that not possible with the VESA driver?
<SNIP> > Btw, I spoke to Dell > - this box is theirs, but of course the people supporting workstations > *still* don't have a clue about Linux, unlike the server people, and > they couldn't find a recent driver, either. > > I *really* dislike ATI/AMD video. At least with NVidia, the proprietary > driver builder *always* works, once you've got the right one, whatever > folks bitch and moan about it.
Have you considered using the elrepo packaged version, or at least reading
<snip> Yep. They got nothing for CentOS 7.
Btw, we got him the full width by changing the cable, from DVI-I to DVI-D (dual link). Then he had to change it back to not recognizing the full width of the screen via the control ctr, because when it did, everything was distorted - circles were ovals, etc.
I suppose I'll get around to writing him a xorg.conf at some time.
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