desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> Quoting Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Try using fglrx instead of radeon driver. It has much better support
>>> for recognizing bad EDID. At least it works
>>> properly on my external monitor (while radeon and radeonhd
>>> fuck up the resolution)
>>
>> ok, but keep in mind we're not talking about "bad" EDID,
>> just *unwanted* EDID which might be perfectly valid.  what
>> i'm hoping is that fglrx will honour the "IgnoreEDID"
>> directive in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

> Right, I meant exactly that. My StarLogic monitors return some EDID that
> causes radeon* drivers to display a lower resolution.
> fglrx works perfectly for me.

excellent, i'll give that a shot first thing tomorrow morning.  i'm
guessing that my system won't have the flgrx module, so i'm assuming
i'll have to track it down.

rday