On , Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> wrote:
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) 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.
Latest 260.xx doesn't need the EDID file and it doesn't crash like earlier 260.xx, but VTs are still broken after X starts. I think some other Sony models are still seeing crashes though.
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