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Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote:
> I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is:
> [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID
> 
> That's the only time when you can actually see something wrong in
> dmesg (it doesn't happen each time, but the result is the same).

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709181 mentions the use of
an option:
options drm_kms_helper poll=0

I wonder if that could be used as a kernel argument somehow, or if initrd
would automatically use it if placed in a .conf file in /etc/modprobe.d

-- 
Len Sorensen


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