On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Broken monitors and/or broken graphic boards may send erroneous or no > EDID data. This also applies to broken KVM devices that are unable to > correctly forward the EDID data of the connected monitor but invent > their own fantasy data. > > This patch allows to specify an EDID data set to be used instead of > probing the monitor for it. It contains built-in data sets of frequently > used screen resolutions. In addition, a particular EDID data set may be > provided in the /lib/firmware directory and loaded via the firmware > interface. The name is passed to the kernel as module parameter of the > drm_kms_helper module either when loaded > options drm_kms_helper edid_firmware=edid/1280x1024.bin > or as kernel commandline parameter > drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1280x1024.bin Windows allow vendor to override eddid based on 3 bytes manufacturer and product code. Seems a reasonnable approach to follow. Bastien _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
