On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Alex Deucher <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/10 Csillag Kristof <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> As I have mentioned a few days earlier, I have encountered a Samsung >> 214T monitor, >> which is unable to properly use DDC when connected via DVI, but works >> fine via VGA. >> >> I could not get it to work with the Radeon driver, but the proprietary >> NVIDIA driver >> had an option to force-feed the driver with custom EDID data from a >> file, instead of DDC, >> so I could use the monitor with NVIDIA. >> >> However, I wanted the Radeon driver, so I have added the same option to >> the radeon driver. >> It works for me; if you consider this useful, please add to the official >> branch. >> >> * * * >> >> Here is how I use it: >> >> 1. Connect the monitor to the PC using VGA >> 2. get-edid > /root/Samsung_214T.edid >> 3. add to xorg.conf: Option "CustomEDID" >> "DVI-0:/root/Samsung_214T.edid" >> 4. Connect the monitor to the PC using DVI >> 5. Restart X >> >> >> ... and it work.s >> >> As far as I can tell, there is no other way to make this monitor work >> with this driver, >> so this is very important to me; however, I am not sure how many people are >> blessed with such broken hardware, so I can not estimate the real importance >> of the problem. >> >> * * * >> >> Please let me know what do you think! > > Great patch! thanks for doing this. I've made some small > improvements to it. Please test this patch and let me know and I'll > go ahead and commit it. >
/me wonders if this could be in the server at all. Dave. > Thanks, > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
