Digital display with NVidia card?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>> Looks like the EDID in your display is very badly mangled:
>> 
>> (--) NVIDIA(0):     ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0)
>> (--) NVIDIA(0): ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0): 135.0 MHz
>> (--) NVIDIA(0):     maximum pixel clock
>> (--) NVIDIA(0): ___ ???????????????????????????????????M (DFP-0): Internal
>> (--) NVIDIA(0):     Single Link TMDS
>> 
>> Is anything displayed during POST?
>
> First, thanks for the VC definition.
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> Based on that bit of info above, wouldn't it make sense to use the:
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> Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
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> and in the xorg.conf and manually input the needed settings?  I also would

How do I get the correct EDID info?

> consider adding:
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> Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" just to be sure.  I believe that is what I 
> had to do a few years back when my nvidia card insisted on using only the 
> analog output.
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> Ed
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