I have a Supermicro server running here at home to run my home entertainment system using Plex. I have a Buffalo Terastation NAS attached and have in total about 54T of space on my home network. I have about 40 devices running on my network behind a Juniper SRX220 router/firewall.
Now I have decided to intall Centos on half of the Supermicro. The other half runs Windows server. Why am I doing this? Why not? I like to have options and I thought it would be nice to have a Centos server running here...
Anyway, the Supermicro has a Matrox G200ew video card and the default settings of centos make me run in 1024x768, which I dislike. The Windows server on the other half runs the same Matrox card in 1280x1024 without any problems, so the hardware can do it.
I have blacklisted the mga g200 driver which forced the use of the vesa driver. This now shows all of the possible video modes including the 1280x1024
The problem is that Centos still does not recognize that my monitor can display these modes. I have a KVM switch which I took out, but the same problem persisted. Centos only displays 'Unknown display' with 1024x768.
Reading about this it appears that I can use xrandr to add the modes to x and make the change.
I then used gtf to get the video settings for 1280x1024 at various sync rates...60 Hz, 65 Hz, 75 Hz and have been trying to use xrandr to add these modes to the video card and screen.
I get all the way to trying to use the modes and then get:
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xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
Any ideas?