desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Sep 26 16:54:15 UTC 2008
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.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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