[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 91966] No signal to monitor with X and openchrome using VX855 chipset graphics

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91966

--- Comment #109 from Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Christopher from comment #108)

Hi Christopher,

> No sweat on the cable -- Dad paid for it, and he's returning it and getting
> his Seasick Washingtons back. It'll be a week or so before the one I got on
> eBay for $1 (!) arrives from Kentucky, though -- since I'm keeping the
> monitor (he said I could) I'll be able to test again on that soon but not
> immediately.
> 
> I'll be going back home from my Dad's tomorrow, so I won't be very
> responsive till Thursday, at the earliest. Travel time's only one little
> tiny hour, but it takes me a while to pack, unpack, and reconstruct
> everything the way it needs to be, you know?
> 
> Hope you're not dealing with jet lag tho -- that can be nasty stuff.

I think one of the major problem of OpenChrome code is that it relies on a
predefined table to initialize which display output will be available.
As far as I am concerned, this is a terrible way to initialize display outputs.
I think the code should be rewritten to completely eliminate the predefined
table, but I doubt I can get anyone else to support doing this.
In other words, only I2C bus should be used to figure out which display is
available.
In your particular case, I do not own a comparable hardware to what you have,
so it is extremely difficult to analyze what is going wrong.
    Over the past 2 months, I have posted about 10 or so patches not related to
the bug you have observed.
Unfortunately, I got no one with Git commit privilege to commit the patches.
At this point, I feel like the OpenChrome project is going nowhere due to lack
of interest and developer neglect.

Regards,

Kevin Brace

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