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Bug#514301: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: ignores existing EDID from ACPI BIOS even when DDC fails



Hi Nikolaus,

Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> (08/02/2009):
> Thanks.  IIUIC, the APCI BIOS may offer the _DDC method to retrieve
> the EDID, and it seems to me that on my machine, it's the only way
> to get it.  (Disclaimer: I only learned about this whole DDC and
> video BIOS thing while examing my problem, so forgive me if I'm
> talking pure BS here. :-) So I think X should check if that _DDC
> method is present in the BIOS, or just parse
> /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/EDID, or whatever, but not miss a complete
> and valid EDID like it apparently does right now.

could you please tell us how it goes with the X stack in squeeze, sid,
or experimental?

KiBi.

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