On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Octoploid <cryptooctoploid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Corbin Simpson >> <mostawesomedude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Octoploid <Cryptooctoploid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Octoploid wrote: >>>> >>>>> The following EDID checksum errors are spamming my syslog. >>>>> (Everything is working fine and there are no other problems >>>>> except these somewhat annoying messages): >>>>> >>>>> drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is >>>>> 128 >>>> >>>> This patch helps: >>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-April/000255.html >>> >>> Your monitor sucks. Don't take it personally; lots of monitors suck. >>> That patch just gives you the option to forcibly use monitors with >>> EDIDs that have bad checksums, in case the checksum is the only bad >>> part of an otherwise valid EDID. >> >> IIRC, ajax sent a patch a while back to just ignore bad checksums >> since they are so common. > > Yes, that is the patch I've linked to above. > But it just papers over the problem. Where do the changing > (corrupted) raw EDID blocks in my first message come from? > From my monitor? Yes. Older versions of the drm code weren't as pedantic. Alex _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
