Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/26/2012 04:14 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: Mark Haney wrote: On 03/26/2012 12:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mark Haney wrote: What is your video chip? It's an Intel i915. And apparently it's one of the ones with the biggest problems. It seems the older integrated Intel chips are

Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Haney
Hi guys, got a question I hope someone can answer pretty quickly. I've been using kubuntu on various slower systems the last couple of years, but since Canonical is dropping KDE I want to shift them all back to Fedora. I've noticed that F16 flies on hardware that F12 just killed so I'm

Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-26 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mark Haney wrote: repeatedly, pegging my proc and rendering the system unusable. Has the 3.1+ kernels addressed this issue? Is it still hanging out there? What exactly is the status of this in the Fedora realm? Right now, I have a system I can use (with the 0.13 kernel) but I don't want to

Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/26/2012 12:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mark Haney wrote: What is your video chip? It's an Intel i915. And apparently it's one of the ones with the biggest problems. It seems the older integrated Intel chips are the ones mostly causing the trouble. You can try a Fedora

Re: Fedora and the horrible EDID checksum issue with various video cards

2012-03-26 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mark Haney wrote: On 03/26/2012 12:06 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: Mark Haney wrote: What is your video chip? It's an Intel i915. And apparently it's one of the ones with the biggest problems. It seems the older integrated Intel chips are the ones mostly causing the trouble. You can