<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Eugeni Dodonov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eugeni@dodonov.net">eugeni@dodonov.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:14, Alfonso Fiore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alfonso.fiore@gmail.com" target="_blank">alfonso.fiore@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div>Hi Angela,<div><br></div><div>I have a very similar problem!</div><div><br></div><div>I have Sandy Bridge (i3 2130) and a Philips 32pf9731d (coincidence?). With my previous i3 550 I didn't have any problem.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I tried all possible resolutions over HDMI and all the time the screen is split in two (twice the top half) and flickering. I also can't manage to use VGA (TV has VGA input).</div><div><br></div><div>
I also tried with the latest kernel and latest X.</div><div><br></div><div>Can you try to run this tool? <a href="http://polypux.org/projects/read-edid/" target="_blank">http://polypux.org/projects/read-edid/</a></div><div>
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I'm absolutely not an expert, but the output I get (Your EDID is probably invalid.) is not encouraging.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd love to know if you get the same error.</div></blockquote></div><div><br>Could you try with the following two patches which just came to this list this week?<br>
<a href="http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/8006" target="_blank">http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/8006</a><br><br>Don't know if they will fix the problem, but they could help perhaps.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Hi Eugeni,</div><div><br></div><div>and thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm just an end-user. I have the willingness to try, but I need a bit more guidance... I've never compiled X. If you can point me to some page that explains the process I'll be more than happy to try.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div>