Problems with intel 945GME

[Alan Hourihane]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:46 +0100, Will Wagner wrote:
> > Try adding this to your xorg.conf file which essentially disables those
> > outputs.
> > 
> > Section "Monitor"
> > 	Identifier "Unknown-1"
> > 	Option "Ignore"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > Section "Monitor"
> > 	Identifier "Unknown-2"
> > 	Option "Ignore"
> > EndSection
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the help. That made quite a difference but it was still slow. It no longer has 
> the second trace when it gets the error (EE) intel(0): SDVO: No active TMDS outputs 
> (0x0000), however it still happens once for each of the unknown devices.
> 
> What more can I do to prevent this? Should I contact the board vendor about what it is 
> reading back for the SDVO?

Actually, I can see why it's still slow. The driver is detecting
something on the SDVO and still trying to find out what's there via i2c,
even when it's ignored. And because nothing is there, the i2c probing is
causing the slowdown.

The motherboard is claiming SDVO support but no capabilities that's
what's causing troubles. 

It's probably worth contacting the vendor there, but the driver could be
hacked to remove the SDVO probing code to improve the startup time.

Alan.