desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

Konstantin Svist fry.kun at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 18:18:48 UTC 2008


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.
>
> rday
>
>

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.

~Konstantin




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