Enhance EDID quirks to allow forcing a mode

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hm, we only recently added support for E-EDID (i.e. more than 1
extension block). Have you checked whether latest kernels fare better?
-Daniel
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