EDID checksum errors

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Corbin Simpson
<mostawesomedude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Octoploid <Cryptooctoploid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Octoploid wrote:
>>
>>> The following EDID checksum errors are spamming my syslog.
>>> (Everything is working fine and there are no other problems
>>> except these somewhat annoying messages):
>>>
>>> drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is
>>> 128
>>
>> This patch helps:
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-April/000255.html
>
> Your monitor sucks. Don't take it personally; lots of monitors suck.
> That patch just gives you the option to forcibly use  monitors with
> EDIDs that have bad checksums, in case the checksum is the only bad
> part of an otherwise valid EDID.

IIRC, ajax sent a patch a while back to just ignore bad checksums
since they are so common.

Alex