EDID failing with Intel driver

[Ross Burton]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:18 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:23:10AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 10:12 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > With Xserver 1.4.1 and -intel 2.3.1 (current Debian unstable) my
> > > laptop's (ThinkPad X60) Intel 945 doesn't read the EDID data from my
> > > external TFT monitor (a Dell 2007FPW).  My laptop reads the EDID in
> > > Windows fine, and a MacBook running OS X also reads the EDID correctly.
> > 
> > I've just discovered that the kernel ACPI modules will read EDID too,
> > and /proc/acpi/video/VID1/CRT0/EDID contains "<not supported>". :(
> 
> It's common to have no EDID support for CRTs through the ACPI methods. 
> Thanks, ACPI spec.

Isn't that fun.  So I can ignore ACPI being lame, leaving the problem of
Xorg failing.

Ross
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