[PATCH 6/6] xfree86: Remove most of EDID printing

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Fri Dec 2 11:19:06 PST 2011


> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:20:35 -0500
> From: Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com>
> 
> On 12/1/11 5:51 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 
> > On 1 December 2011 22:51, Adam Jackson<ajax at redhat.com>  wrote:
> >> The important part of this is the mode list, which we already print in
> >> another form.  Everything else is cosmetic and better done in the
> >> session.
> >
> > Where is this information available if not printed here?
> >
> > It will be very hard to debug screen issues if it's not logged,
> > especially for UMS drivers.
> 
> The log still prints a hexdump.  You can feed that to edid-decode or 
> parse-edid or whatever your tool of choice is.

Ah, yes, I've done that in the past.  Works reasonably well.  It's
somewhat annoying that the hexdump is indented and prefixed with the
driver name, but that's circumventable.  I withdraw my objection.



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