Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote:
>> From: m.roth@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]
>>
>> John R Pierce wrote:
>> > On 11/3/2015 8:11 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> >> On 11/3/2015 7:33 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx 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
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