On 07/10/2014 08:01 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > Greetings! I tried installing CentOS v7 (1406) to an old spare > machine, and the video card apparently don't play well with X. It is > incorrectly saying that either monitor I connect is only able to > support 640x480, when one is 1024x768 and the other supports a higher > (but now forgotten) resolution. In no way do I expect a fix to be > added just to support my antique. :) > > What I'd like to find, or have added to future CentOS installation > discs, is a way to force the GUI resolution. Alternately, if nothing > below 800x600 will show the GUI properly perhaps the installer should > just forcibly set that as the minimum, no matter what the hardware > claims to allow? > > Details of the hardware and such follow, let me know if you need more. > =-=-=-=-=-= > > Under the normal boot from the normal DVD, graphics-mode output is > discolored and squashed to the left of the display. In the "Basic > Graphics" troubleshooting mode the output is clear and proper, but > still just 640x480. > > Server: Gateway E-9422R > Video card: Matrox Graphics MGA G200e, PCI 102b:0522 > > I captured the output of lspci, dmidecode, /tmp, and /var/log in both > Normal and Basic Graphics boot modes. The file is 1,692,776 bytes and > has the following SHA1 checksum: > > f9cd800ced963e29d0bb3e4381596dc3b61a4c4c > *CentOS7_InstallerResolutionProblem.tar.xz > > It can be downloaded from this link: > http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=55151826488339350948 There is a basic video install in the 3rd selection when you boot the iso .. in the "Troubleshooting" section. You might give that a try and see if it works better after boot of the OS. The anaconda drivers are a subset of the drivers for the distro, so it might work better after initial. Might also try one of the LiveGnome or LiveKDE isos. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140710/ec310c2b/attachment-0004.sig>