Bug#690794: EDID not read, results in flickering monitor

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

notforwarded 690794
retitle 690794 radeon: BARTS: monitor listed as "Unknown", low refresh rate, unless firmware installed
severity 690794 wishlist
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Darxus wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:

>> Is the firmware-linux-nonfree package installed on Debian Wheezy?
>
> No, it was not.  
>
> Installing this package appears to have solved my problem, thanks.
>
> gnome-control-center is no-longer listing my monitor as "Unknown", but
> appropriately as "Viewsonic [something].

Thanks, both.

Darxus, that leaves a few unanswered questions:

 * what was the monitor unidentified and flickering when using an
   NVIDIA card with the nouveau driver?

 * is there some way to get the EDID and set refresh rate without
   proprietary microcode on radeon BARTS cards?

I'm keeping this open for the latter, as a wishlist since it seems
hard.

Regards,
Jonathan