On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> Since who ever it was made the change to using EDID, I have never had >> X work the way I want it to again. >> 1. It always chooses the wrong resolution for me, this is on at least >> 5 installs on different machines >> 2. Even after you convince it to use the resolution I want, I must >> have my monitor on, again happens on all machines since this change >> was made >> >> I much rather type in a modeline once and have it work, and not have >> to worry about whether or not my monitor was on on boot. >> >> And to the original poster, sorry to chime in late, but IgnoreEDID is >> ironically ignored every time I have attempted it. > > also ironically, the IgnoreEDID option *clearly* makes a difference as > you can see in the X log file, but it's just as clearly still being > processed somehow, and making a mess of things. i had no idea what > kind of bad craziness i was getting into with what i thought was a > fairly simple problem. > > rday I spent several more hours than I suspect you having trying to get a Flatscreen tv (which was really just a cheap, but large LCD monitor) to work with Xorg. Xorg simply wouldn't accept the resolutions I was trying, most due to the fact that the resolutions I wasn't telling it to use didn't agree with what it thought it was getting via EDID. I finally got something close (after buying a brand new video card hoping it would better than the onboard one) and just settled for that. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
