Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >> From: m.roth at 5-cent.us [mailto:m.roth at 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 at 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. mark