Re: I've tested the PGI installer
[Branden Robinson]
>On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:57:15AM +0200, Nick Name wrote:
>> One grave bug: it hangs on DDC detection for me (nvidia geforce2
>> with, obviously, "nv" driver, LG915FT). It really hangs with no
>> hope else than CTRL+ALT+F2 and killall read-edid.
>
> It's not grave. Video cards falling over dead when they receive DDC
> probes is the hardware manufacturer's fault.
But he reported to me that ddcprobe from the package kudzu-vesa do not
have this problem. It thus seem to be possible to handle this broken
hardware without locking the machine or the installation process.
What about using ddcprobe instead of read-edid in the xfree86
packages?
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