Enhance EDID quirks to allow forcing a mode

Dylan Semler dylan.semler at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 07:02:52 PDT 2013


On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Oops.  I neglected to preface this with my motivation:  I have a new
> > monitor that doesn't report its native resolution in its EDID block.  It
> > seemed to me this calls for an EDID quirk, but the current quirk
> > infrastructure doesn't allow explicitly creating new modes.  So I set
out
> > to make a simple enhancement to allow specifying a new mode and then
> > setting it as preferred.
> >
>
> That's odd.  Maybe it's actually in an extension block or something like
> that?

Yeah, I agree.  According to edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid
there's one extension block, but none of those modes are the native
resolution
either.
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