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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail