On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:19:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/19/18 02:41, Beartooth wrote: >> but that's as far as I've gotten. I'm hoping someone here will tell me >> there's a file on each PC that I can just paste the above into: most of >> it is Geek to me. > > Along with looking at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/EDID/ > > as pointed to by Tom, you should also look at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ kernel_mode_setting#Forcing_modes_and_EDID > > Basically, because you have a KVM that doesn't relay the EDID data from > the monitor to the kernel faithfully you'll need to override it. The > link above gives information on how to do that. The hard part can be > getting the actual EDID information from your monitor to place in > /usr/lib/firmware/edid . I did cd /usr/lib/firmware, followed by ls|grep edid -- first as user, and then as root. No hits either way. Does that mine is elsewhere? Or that its absence *is* the problem? If the latter, can I simply put the kernel.org file into /usr/lib/ firmware? And uncomment -- what? All of it? > I only have experience doing that with nVidia > binary drivers where it is easy to do with their nvidia-settings > utility. There is a monitor-edid package available which supplies > monitor-get-edid which may or may not work. If you install it, you'll > probably find it gets a selinux error which you can fix easily. But it > won't work for me after that but that may be due to my choice of > drivers. Remember I know precious little (beyond the jargon -- I'm a linguist, after all). Messing with anything kernel-related OR selinux- related sounds to me like a minefield for fools. "Here, hold my beer ...." > Anyway, something like this happened to me quite some time ago. I found > the least painful thing to do was to research and then go out and buy a > good KVM. I no longer have the need for KVM so I can't recommend a > product. But that is what I would do. Not only would it solve the > problem for me with the least amount of pain/effort I wouldn't have to > go through the same process in the event of a fresh install or another > reason. That sounds best for me, too; so I have asked my go-to LUG. Many many thanks!! -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
