On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > Am 16.10.10, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Luc Verhaegen: >> When looking into #24348 i dug out the read-edid code to see what i >> needed to do to separately test the failing 0x4F01 call on vbe with >> vm86. >> >> I ended up rewriting the get-edid tool completely, it is tiny and its >> functionality is trivial anyway, and now we have: >> * actual readable C code, MIT license. >> * useful verbosity. >> * dumping of only the main edid block to mmm-dddd.edid (just 128bytes as >> i am too lazy to do things properly). >> >> So, vbe-edid is available here: >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~libv/vbe-edid > > Error: iopl failed: Operation not permitted > > It seems to need privileged rights. > > As root: > Found VBE Version 3.0. > VBE Call 0x15 failed! > > What are the requirements to run vbe-edid successfully? > > > kind regards > Kai-Uwe Behrmann
No idea what is going wrong there, but the laptop i tested it on here refused to provide the edid of the panel, and only provided an edid block when i attached an external monitor, which then return the standard VBE call failed error back too. What does the tool in read-edid provide? Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
