Your message dated Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:56:53 +0100 with message-id <CAGnkunfOT=UFhXG=v5ez_uo18g4lnbzjy8+en_7m9gefyxg...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line read-edid: get-edid gets stuck in an infinite loop has caused the Debian Bug report #79900, regarding read-edid: get-edid gets stuck in an infinite loop to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: read-edid Version: 1.4.0-2 Severity: normal get-edid does the following on my computer: (this goes on forever, just prints more and more information like this, and it prevents xserver-xfree86 from installing) My monitor is Belinea 10 30 40, videocard Riva TNT2 32MB get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.0 Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0 Function supported Call successful VBE version 300 VBE string at 0x11110 "NVidia" VBE/DDC service about to be called Report DDC capabilities Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0 Function supported Call successful Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers 0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0 Function supported Call failed The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed EDID claims 18 more blocks left *********** Something special has happened! Please contact the author, John Fremlin E-mail: one of [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] Please include full output from this program (especially that to stderr) Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful EDID claims 38 more blocks left *********** Something special has happened! Please contact the author, John Fremlin E-mail: one of [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] Please include full output from this program (especially that to stderr) Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful EDID claims 240 more blocks left *********** Something special has happened! Please contact the author, John Fremlin E-mail: one of [email protected],[email protected],[email protected] Please include full output from this program (especially that to stderr) Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful EDID claims 240 more blocks left EDID keeps on claiming same number of blocks left. Corruption? Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 Function supported Call successful Reading next EDID block VBE/DDC service about to be called Read EDID Performing real mode VBE call Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x10000 -- System Information Debian Release: woody Kernel Version: Linux atlas13 2.4.0-test12 #7 Tue Dec 12 16:29:57 CET 2000 i686 unknown Versions of the packages read-edid depends on: ii libc6 2.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
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--- Begin Message ---This bug is not longer present in 3.X branch, due to the new I2C interface, please update. -- Pozdrawiam, Dariusz Dwornikowski, Assistant Institute of Computing Science, PoznaĆ University of Technology www.cs.put.poznan.pl/ddwornikowski/ room 2.7.2 BTiCW | tel. +48 61 665 29 41
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