desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Chris Tyler wrote:

>
> On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 17:20 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > also ironically, the IgnoreEDID option *clearly* makes a difference as
> > you can see in the X log file, but it's just as clearly still being
> > processed somehow, and making a mess of things.  i had no idea what
> > kind of bad craziness i was getting into with what i thought was a
> > fairly simple problem.
>
> Are you supplying HorizSync and VertRefresh ranges in the xorg.conf?

nope, i am simply adding the line

  Option "IgnoreEDID" "True"

rday
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