EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

[Ben Skeggs]

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Atilla Filiz wrote:
> >    Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally black
> >    screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers. A workaround is to dump
> >    the EDID of the LCD panel into a file and use an xorg.conf file to force X
> >    to use custom EDID. This time, system console(the one you reach via
> >    ctrl+alt-f<1-6>) go blank.
> >    Nouveau works without problems.
> >    What would be the proper solution to this problem? Is it a fault
> >    correctable by Xorg or are Nvidia people to be contacted to resolve this?
> 
> nvidia need to add support for requesting the EDID via ACPI.
The recent versions of NVIDIA's driver should support this OK from what
I can tell, I don't have the effected hardware to say for sure.

Ben.
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