<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - Screen flicker when using display with incorrect EDID" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61537#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - Screen flicker when using display with incorrect EDID" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61537">bug 61537</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:emil.l.velikov@gmail.com" title="Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>"> Emil Velikov</a> <pre>A bit of a (hopefully useful) information - Whenever drm_kms_helper.poll is disabled, your vga monitor won't get automatically detected when it's not plugged in at boot. - Iirc there are two modes when querying for info via the xrandr protocol - use cached one or re-probe. - Original nv50 (and earlier?) hardware the blob does a plain sleep/udelay between setup and probe, while for nv92 and latter it uses a more elaborate approach (see <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed" title="RESOLVED FIXED - [nouveau, nv50] linux 3.9.7-3.10.3: Xorg won't be available" href="show_bug.cgi?id=67382#c34">bug 67382, comment 34</a>). Currently nouveau uses the former method which contributes (not sure to what extend) to the flicker.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>