desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Sep 21 22:30:12 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:26:10 -0400,
  "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> in the long term, yes, we will eventually figure out what EDID info
> the video device should have but, in the short term, as tom appreciates,
> i just want my F9 system to ignore/ignore/ignore whatever is coming
> back in terms of EDID.  and, thus far, i have been utterly unable to
> do so.

In my case I have a monitor that doesn't do EDID (at least not correctly)
and even though the driver knows there is a monitor attached, it ignores
it; resulting in output defaulting to the port where there isn't a monitor
attached. I have a one line patch I apply every update to force it to see
that monitor.




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