[Nouveau] Monitor with corrupted EDID

Flavio Castelli flavio at castelli.me
Fri Feb 8 05:11:45 PST 2013


On 02/08/2013 11:44 AM, mwesten wrote:
> My suspicion is that if the EDID data got corrupted in the first place,
> then it's not protected.  I don't know about i2cset, or any other methods.

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm trying to overwrite the EEPROM 
using a DVI cable (since it's the DVI EDID which is broken). I saw other 
people used a vga -> dvi cable to do that because some pins could not be 
"exposed" by the DVI cable. I'm don't fully believe in this explanation.

Cheers
Flavio


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