On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:04 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > 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. /me wonders how this could be done for KMS drivers, abuse the firmware loader?
Ben. > > 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 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
