desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Sep 26 16:58:46 UTC 2008
Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> Quoting Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>:
>>
>>> Robert,
>>>
>>> Have you read "man radeon" at all? In the "man radeon" on a handy
>>> gentoo
>>> system it says:
>>>
>>> Option "IgnoreEDID" "boolean"
>>> Do not use EDID data for mode validation, but DDC is still
>>> used for monitor detection. This is different from NoDDC
>>> option. The default value is off.
>>>
>>> Option "DDCMode" "boolean"
>>> Force to use the modes queried from the connected monitor.
>>> The
>>> default is off.
>>>
>>> I see that "NoDDC" and "DDCMode" appear to be spelt differently, but
>>> neither is spelt "DDC" unless the X server treats "NoDDC" as a synonym
>>> for "DDC" "False" per Alan's suggestion.
>>
>> i was unaware that a man page for "radeon" even existed but i think i've
>> already tested these combinations. i've used False for IgnoreEDID
>> and, as
>> you point out, the default for DDCMode is false. so i think i've covered
>> those possibilities, unless i'm misreading something here.
>>
> Is that a typo? You *want* to ignore EDID, don't you? So the value of
> "Ignore EDID" should be "True" I would assume.
>
And to reply to my own post, yes, it was a typo, you quoted it as "False" in
your original post, which I had to go back and check.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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