Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, <m.roth at 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. mark "call your Congressman and/or Senators and tell them to spend more money in the civilian sector of the government"