Re: Screen resolution

[Johann Klammer <klammerr@aon.at>]

Andrew Wood wrote:
> Hi Kevin
>
>
> yes the xserver-xorg-video-intel package is installed. how do i check
> which driver is actually being used? one strange thing is that the
> kernel is printing out the following to the console, not sure what it
> means, could it be a fault with the controller board in the LCD?
>
> 353.942420] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.
> [ 363.669312] Raw EDID:
> [ 363.669327] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669335] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669343] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669350] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669357] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669364] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669371] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669378] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> [ 363.669392] i915 0000:00:02.0: VGA-1: EDID block 0 invalid.
>
>
> On 06/01/12 00:59, Kevin Ross wrote:

EDID is the mechanism by which the display notifies the Gfx Card
of it's Capabilities(Resolution etc).
The message above may either be caused by your display not supplying 
this information, or it is querying the wrong output. VGA instead of 
DVI. In the latter case, it may not be significant at all.