Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-08-10 Thread Ian Pilcher
Well, it took me 4 months to find the time, but I finally had a crack addressing the ideas you mentioned in your last response. I believe that the patch in the following note does everything that you wanted, and hopefully it's all straightforward enough that it doesn't require a lot of

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-08-09 Thread Ian Pilcher
Well, it took me 4 months to find the time, but I finally had a crack addressing the ideas you mentioned in your last response. I believe that the patch in the following note does everything that you wanted, and hopefully it's all straightforward enough that it doesn't require a lot of

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:50 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > On 05/03/2012 02:42 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > I'd like to see documentation for the bit values of the quirks as well. > > And, ideally, this would also have some runtime API for manipulating the > > quirk list, so that way you can test new

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 05/03/2012 02:42 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > This looks good, thank you for taking it on. It was either that or give up on my big display, so ... you're welcome. > I'd like to see documentation for the bit values of the quirks as well. > And, ideally, this would also have some runtime API for

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-07 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 05/03/2012 02:42 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: This looks good, thank you for taking it on. It was either that or give up on my big display, so ... you're welcome. I'd like to see documentation for the bit values of the quirks as well. And, ideally, this would also have some runtime API for

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-07 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:50 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 05/03/2012 02:42 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: I'd like to see documentation for the bit values of the quirks as well. And, ideally, this would also have some runtime API for manipulating the quirk list, so that way you can test new quirks

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/3/12 2:01 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > The patch does the following: This looks good, thank you for taking it on. > * Changes the vendor field of struct edid_quirk to an array, rather >than a pointer. (This has already been sent to the dri-devel list.) > * Adds two new quirks

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Pilcher
I just attached this patch to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806091, along with the following comments: This is the "first draft" of an EDID quirk-based approach to solving this problem. I intend to perform a bit of cleanup and break it up into a series of separate patches, but I'm

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-03 Thread Ian Pilcher
I just attached this patch to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806091, along with the following comments: This is the first draft of an EDID quirk-based approach to solving this problem. I intend to perform a bit of cleanup and break it up into a series of separate patches, but I'm

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/3/12 2:01 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: The patch does the following: This looks good, thank you for taking it on. * Changes the vendor field of struct edid_quirk to an array, rather than a pointer. (This has already been sent to the dri-devel list.) * Adds two new quirks

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-24 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/24/2012 04:07 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > I just had a similar issue with a different driver and remembered your post > > If the S bits in the infoframe are 0 the display may under- or overscan the > the image (Although the spec says it should behave the same if no infoframe > is

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-24 Thread Lars-Peter Clausen
On 04/19/2012 09:16 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Greetings all! > > I recently discovered that my nice 1900x1200 display is horribly > confused by the InfoFrame functionality that was added to the nouveau > driver in Linux 3.3. Additional testing has shown that it has the same > problem with the

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-24 Thread Lars-Peter Clausen
On 04/19/2012 09:16 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote: Greetings all! I recently discovered that my nice 1900x1200 display is horribly confused by the InfoFrame functionality that was added to the nouveau driver in Linux 3.3. Additional testing has shown that it has the same problem with the i915

Re: Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-24 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/24/2012 04:07 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: I just had a similar issue with a different driver and remembered your post If the S bits in the infoframe are 0 the display may under- or overscan the the image (Although the spec says it should behave the same if no infoframe is present). If

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-19 Thread Ian Pilcher
Greetings all! I recently discovered that my nice 1900x1200 display is horribly confused by the InfoFrame functionality that was added to the nouveau driver in Linux 3.3. Additional testing has shown that it has the same problem with the i915 driver and NVIDIA's proprietary driver. NVIDIA's

Enhancing EDID quirk functionality

2012-04-19 Thread Ian Pilcher
Greetings all! I recently discovered that my nice 1900x1200 display is horribly confused by the InfoFrame functionality that was added to the nouveau driver in Linux 3.3. Additional testing has shown that it has the same problem with the i915 driver and NVIDIA's proprietary driver. NVIDIA's