F10 beta: No xorg.conf, where to tweak Synaptics pad?
Adam Jackson
ajax at redhat.com
Fri Oct 10 14:24:58 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:29 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:36:33 -0700,
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:33 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > > There is a small fly in this ointment. The above may work, usually,
> > > but very far from always. For example, if monitor EDID data are
> > > faulty or not present at all, and this is _not_ a hypothetical
> > > situation, then a configuration you are getting is busted. Also
> > > something which is possible, and even "correct" in some sense, does
> > > not need to be optimal/desired in a given situation.
> >
> > Perfect is the enemy of good.
> >
> > Ajax has in the past asked for /anybody/ to provide him situations where
> > the EDID is bogus.
>
> I have had a ticket open since last February where the driver ignores
> a monitor because it doesn't do EDID and ends up not sending any signal to
> the DVI port (I suspect it is getting sent to the VGA port). I have to
> patch xorg-x11-drv-ati everytime a new version becomes available. This
> actually works pretty well, but is still annoying.
Bug number? I drown in bugzilla.
- ajax
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