On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Atilla Filiz wrote: > > Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally black > > screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers. A workaround is to dump > > the EDID of the LCD panel into a file and use an xorg.conf file to force > > X > > to use custom EDID. This time, system console(the one you reach via > > ctrl+alt-f<1-6>) go blank. > > Nouveau works without problems. > > What would be the proper solution to this problem? Is it a fault > > correctable by Xorg or are Nvidia people to be contacted to resolve this? > > nvidia need to add support for requesting the EDID via ACPI. The recent versions of NVIDIA's driver should support this OK from what I can tell, I don't have the effected hardware to say for sure.
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