Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On 2/25/07, Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 11:26 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >
> > Applied. No noticeable difference, in the sense that the EDID debug
> > output is still the same and so is the snow effect.
>
> Here's a temporary workaround:
>
> In drivers/video/nvidia/nv_i2c.c:nvidia_probe_i2c_connector(),comment
> this out:
>
>         if (par->chan[conn - 1].par)
>                 edid = fb_ddc_read(&par->chan[conn - 1].adapter);
>
> and make sure CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID=y.

With this patch, I don't get any dmesg info about my monitor EDID, but
I still get the snow. Could it be that there's something else on my
system which is setting the video to some absurd timings when I
switchg on the framebuffer console? I'm running an up-to-date debian
unstable.

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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