desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:42:30 -0400 (EDT)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:54:13 -0400
>> > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> > >    i have a fresh install of f9 on an aging dell inspiron 9200 with a
>> > > full WUXGA display, and i'm trying to drive a full-res WUXGA signal
>> > > into an external video processing device that is (theoretically)
>> > > supposed to be able to handle that.
>> >
>> > Back on F7 and before, I was able to beat the X server into submission.
>> > On F8 and later, it appears hopeless. After ignoring EDID info for 25
>> > years, X suddenly decided to switch and ignore linux users instead :-).
>>
>> i'm reaching that conclusion, slowly and painfully.  and it's not
>> making me a happy man.
>
> Using EDID is normally the right thing to do or maybe you haven't been
> running Linux long enough to remember things like the mode line
> calculator spreadsheet 8)


Since who ever it was made the change to using EDID, I have never had
X work the way I want it to again.
1. It always chooses the wrong resolution for me, this is on at least
5 installs on different machines
2. Even after you convince it to use the resolution I want, I must
have my monitor on, again happens on all machines since this change
was made

I much rather type in a modeline once and have it work, and not have
to worry about whether or not my monitor was on on boot.

And to the original poster, sorry to chime in late, but IgnoreEDID is
ironically ignored every time I have attempted it.


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