EDID checksum errors

[Corbin Simpson]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Octoploid <Cryptooctoploid at gmail.com> wrote:
> Octoploid wrote:
>
>> The following EDID checksum errors are spamming my syslog.
>> (Everything is working fine and there are no other problems
>> except these somewhat annoying messages):
>>
>> drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is
>> 128
>
> This patch helps:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-April/000255.html

Your monitor sucks. Don't take it personally; lots of monitors suck.
That patch just gives you the option to forcibly use  monitors with
EDIDs that have bad checksums, in case the checksum is the only bad
part of an otherwise valid EDID.

-- 
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Corbin Simpson
<MostAwesomeDude at gmail.com>