Whilst most monitors do wire up the HPD presence pin, it seems quite a few KVM do not. Therefore if we simply rely on the HPD pin being asserted to indicate a connected monitor we fail miserable, so fall back to performing a DCC query for the EDID. Reported-and-tested-by: Matthieu LAVIE <boiteamadmax at hotmail.com> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50501 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> --- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c index f0223d0..804611e 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_crt.c @@ -453,13 +453,15 @@ intel_crt_detect(struct drm_connector *connector, bool force) struct intel_load_detect_pipe tmp; if (I915_HAS_HOTPLUG(dev)) { + /* We can not rely on the HPD pin always being correctly wired + * up, for example many KVM do not pass it through, and so + * only trust an assertion that the monitor is connected. + */ if (intel_crt_detect_hotplug(connector)) { DRM_DEBUG_KMS("CRT detected via hotplug\n"); return connector_status_connected; - } else { + } else DRM_DEBUG_KMS("CRT not detected via hotplug\n"); - return connector_status_disconnected; - } } if (intel_crt_detect_ddc(connector)) -- 1.7.10
