On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it probably is correct. The same driver could be used for both 22" and 27".
>>
>> Are you having any specific problems with your display?
>
> A lot of monitor firmwares always report the same size even when
> there are many different models of the monitors with different sizes.
> This can screw up gnome DPI computations and give you
> funny sized fonts.
>
> I bodged the EDID info for my samsung 46 inch TV
> that reported its size as 9 inches and used the kernel
> parameter to point to my new EDID:
>
> drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/zootyrgb.bin
>
> Now all modesetting video drivers always get the dadgum
> DPI correct (of course the binary nvidia driver
> doesn't do modesetting, but you can create an
> xorg.conf.d file for it to explicitly set the DPI).
Thanks, Ed, Rick and Tom. Notwithstanding the reported problem,
everything seems to working fine.
EDID reports the following in my case:
--------------------------------
Extracted contents:
header: 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00
serial number: 1e 6d b6 5a c5 cb 00 00 07 1a
version: 01 03
basic params: 6c 30 1b 78 ea
chroma info: 31 35 a5 55 4e a1 26 0c 50 54
established: a5 4b 00
standard: 71 4f 81 80 95 00 b3 00 a9 c0 81 00 81 c0 90 40
descriptor 1: 02 3a 80 18 71 38 2d 40 58 2c 45 00 e0 0e 11 00 00 1e
descriptor 2: 00 00 00 fd 00 38 4b 1e 53 0f 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20
descriptor 3: 00 00 00 fc 00 4c 47 20 49 50 53 20 46 55 4c 4c 48 44
descriptor 4: 00 00 00 ff 00 36 30 37 4e 54 4b 46 31 4a 31 36 35 0a
extensions: 00
checksum: 80
Manufacturer: GSM Model 5ab6 Serial Number 52165
Made week 7 of 2016
EDID version: 1.3
Analog display, Input voltage level: 0.7/0.7 V
Sync: Separate Composite
Maximum image size: 48 cm x 27 cm
Gamma: 2.20
DPMS levels: Standby Suspend Off
RGB color display
First detailed timing is preferred timing
Established timings supported:
720x400@70Hz
640x480@60Hz
640x480@75Hz
800x600@60Hz
800x600@75Hz
1024x768@60Hz
1024x768@75Hz
1280x1024@75Hz
Standard timings supported:
1152x864@75Hz
1280x1024@60Hz
1440x900@60Hz
1680x1050@60Hz
1600x900@60Hz
1280x800@60Hz
1280x720@60Hz
1400x1050@60Hz
Detailed mode: Clock 148.500 MHz, 480 mm x 270 mm
1920 2008 2052 2200 hborder 0
1080 1084 1089 1125 vborder 0
+hsync +vsync
Monitor ranges (GTF): 56-75Hz V, 30-83kHz H, max dotclock 150MHz
Serial number: 607NTKF1J165
Checksum: 0x80 (valid)
EDID block does NOT conform to EDID 1.3!
Name descriptor not terminated with a newline
--------------------------------
Paul
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