[colord] failed to get edid data: EDID length is too small

[Richard Hughes]

On 3 July 2017 at 03:50, Howard Johnson <bridgeportcontractor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed a "failed to get edid data: EDID length is too small" error
> message in my startup journal and hope to track down the reason for this
> message.  (Or perhaps it's not important, and you can tell me that.)  Any
> ideas of how to find out which EDID is too small?

Do you have a missing device in the color control panel? EDID too
small is usually a hardware error (vendors are pretty bad).

> Is it ok (safe) to colormgr delete-device for that printer, and if so, then
> how hard is it to get it back later when I finally am able to plug that
> printer in?  Sorry for all of the question, but the man page and your web
> site didn't give me much to go on.

CUPS automatically adds the device, so if you remove the queue in CUPS
it should be removed automatically in colord too.

Richard