https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94863
--- Comment #21 from HuangRan <huangra...@126.com> ---
(In reply to Benno Schulenberg from comment #19)
> (In reply to Kevin Brace from comment #18)
> > so the screen resolution may have to be limited to 800 X 600 and 640 X
> > 480 [...] for monitors the device driver was not able to read its EDID
>
> That is ridiculous. My monitor does not /have/ an EDID, so it /cannot/ be
> detected, but it is perfectly able to show 1280x1024, and openchrome is able
> to provide that mode when it is told to generate it and that a monitor is
> there.
>
> What you are proposing is to /willingly/ cripple devices that can work
> flawlessly if you allow users to provide the data that the driver can't
> detect.
>
> It is not a "limp mode", it is a "drive-blind mode" -- trust the user, give
> him the wheel, and the clutch, and the accelerator.
Agree with Benno on this point...
We should give the user privilege to set the mode they want when no edid
information can be probed out by the driver.
Thanks,
Frank
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