[Intel-gfx] Support for HDMI on ASUS P5E-VM HDMI (G35 chipset)

[Hong Liu]

Parsing EDID data is in X server, Intel driver just fetches the EDID
data block from monitor and passes this data to X server for parsing.

Would you please attach your Xorg log with Option modedebug turned on?

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:08 +0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> One quick question, does the Intel driver support parsing EDID ver 1.3
> over HDMI?  The reason I ask is that I just checked my X.org.log and
> the decoded EDID in log listed 1920x540 interlaced as the only
> available mode. This looks wrong as the plasma manual does not list
> this mode as a supported mode. I can post my EDID block if needed.
> I'll also try to decode it by hand.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 5/19/08, Mike Wright <bodyjarrocks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gordon,
> >
> > Thanks very for your efforts Gordon and team.  If I can get some
> > stable behaviour i'll submit a bug report.  I'm glad your team has the
> > board :-)
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Jin, Gordon <gordon.jin at intel.com> wrote:
> >> Mike Wright wrote on Monday, May 19, 2008 1:36 PM:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm having problems getting HDMI to work on my ASUS P5E-VM HDMI.  I'll
> >>> post xorg.conf and logs soon.  I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) and the
> >>> latest Intel XORG driver and DRM kernel part from GIT.  I have also
> >>> tried other versions of the driver like 2.3.0.
> >>
> >> You might search on the bugzilla first.
> >>
> >> Many people on this list use the ASUS P5E-VM HDMI. They have problem
> >> with HDMI more or less (Is there anyone getting HDMI working
> >> perfectly?). Someone (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13968)
> >> get black screen like you, someone get display but with some rendering
> >> issue like me.
> >>
> >> My team bought this board specifically for resolving these bugs. But I'm
> >> sorry we are making slow progress in the recent months. The main issue
> >> is that P5E-VM is using SDVO HDMI not native HDMI, while the SDVO HDMI
> >> is not Intel product and we don't have enough documentation on this.
> >> Hong is working on this and will get this list informed once he get the
> >> info.
> >>
> >>> I have a Pioneer Plasma PDP427XDA connected via a short 1.5m HDMI
> >>> cable directly to the PC.  VGA works fine with the latest GIT driver.
> >>>
> >>> Basically I can only get a black screen or a complete system lookup
> >>> (no SSH or ping).  I'd like to help out by looking at code and specs
> >>> and start debugging.
> >>
> >> You can check bug#13968 to see if you're getting the same problem for
> >> black screen.
> >>
> >> System lockup is not expected. This is the first I heard about this on
> >> HDMI. You might file a new bug.
> >>
> >>> What I'd like to know is:
> >>>
> >>> 1)  Has anyone actually got this combination working?
> >>> 2)  Does the Mobo BIOS version have any impact on this?
> >>
> >> I haven't heard upgrading BIOS resolves the issues.
> >>
> >> Gordon
> >>
> >
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