https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34554
--- Comment #8 from Francisco Jerez <[email protected]> 2011-03-30 08:51:53 PDT --- (In reply to comment #7) > TL;DR (short) version: > > I have seen very, very similar symptoms on two Dell (D620, XPS M1710) laptops > running nouveau since about the same time. The laptop panels no longer work > properly in Linux, in BIOS, or in Windows 7, however in one case (D620), > proper > fiddling with the BIOS display select hotkey during POST results in partial > functionality under certain circumstances. > I wouldn't rule out a manufacturing defect, interestingly both laptops are mentioned in the nVidia GPU litigation [1]. > Like the OP, I get EDID blocks with an invalid first byte (often 0xa9 or 0xa1) > and/or invalid leading 0x 00ff ffff ffff ff00 reported in dmesg. > > I think this is the same issue described in #4552. > > Given the amount of my hardware that I believe to have been affected, I am > hereby offering as a bounty a hardware donation of ~200 USD worth of > at-least-sort-of relevant hardware of his/her choosing to any developer able > to > resolve this in such a way that my laptop panels start working again, in the > interest of keeping him/her well stocked with hardware to hack. If you're up > to your eyeballs in cards to work on, I'll ship to another hacker of your > choosing or consider a favorite charity. > Have you considered donating/lending out one of the affected laptops instead? It looks like physical access and being able to take the laptop apart would actually be helpful here to diagnose the problem. >[...] [1] http://www.nvidiasettlement.com/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
