[CentOS] C7 basic install, HATE

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 15:48, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
> I've got an old server, that I'm *trying* to rebuild from C6. Our regular
> key, with the kickstarts, etc, simply won't boot. Just a blank screen, and
> it never goes anywhere.
>
> So I'm trying to build it from a year-old regular installer.
>
> 100% of the time, the graphical screen is screwed. Resolution's so big
> that I cannot see the right-hand 10% or 15% of the screen. There doesn't
> seem to be any way that I've found yet to make it higher res, so I can
> read it.
>
> It's *not* the monitor's fault. It is an ancient Matrox video card... but
> I would have thought the VESA driver could handle it.
>

Easiest would be put $20.00 into an old video card to replace the
Matrox. Matrox support seems to have degraded in X11 after 2010 or so.

The next solution would be to try the text mode and stick to that.
The third is to find kernel vesa modes on the bootline which may help

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466318

vga=0x318

looks like an option?



> Any suggestions?
>
>         mark
>
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