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title="NEW --- - displayport link training fails on certain panels (channel equalization fails)"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27314#c71">Comment # 71</a>
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title="NEW --- - displayport link training fails on certain panels (channel equalization fails)"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27314">bug 27314</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" title="Rafael Ávila de Espíndola <rafael.espindola@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Rafael Ávila de Espíndola</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=27314#c69">comment #69</a>)
<span class="quote">> Hi,
>
> Has anyone been able to get KMS working on a 27" iMac?
>
> I have an iMac 11,1 and I cannot get X to work. Documentation
> is scarce, so I don't know how to discover what is the problem.
> When I start X, it doesn't show any errors, but I get a blank
> screen. Same for when I insert the radeon module with kms on.
> I suspect that the EDID is not being handled correctly. Does
> any of you know how I can create an external EDID for a 2560x1440
> monitor? My video card is an ATI Radeon HD 4850, by the way.
>
> I'd appreciate any help. I'm using linux 3.10, and can post dmesg,
> Xorg.0.log, etc. I'd also happily live with a non kms setup, but
> recent X seems to require kms...
>
> Thank you,</span >
I works for me on the same hardware if I bios boot it. With an EFI boot I get a
black screen like yours.</pre>
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