desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>
>> Since who ever it was made the change to using EDID, I have never had
>> X work the way I want it to again.
>> 1. It always chooses the wrong resolution for me, this is on at least
>> 5 installs on different machines
>> 2. Even after you convince it to use the resolution I want, I must
>> have my monitor on, again happens on all machines since this change
>> was made
>>
>> I much rather type in a modeline once and have it work, and not have
>> to worry about whether or not my monitor was on on boot.
>>
>> And to the original poster, sorry to chime in late, but IgnoreEDID is
>> ironically ignored every time I have attempted it.
>
> also ironically, the IgnoreEDID option *clearly* makes a difference as
> you can see in the X log file, but it's just as clearly still being
> processed somehow, and making a mess of things.  i had no idea what
> kind of bad craziness i was getting into with what i thought was a
> fairly simple problem.
>
> rday


I spent several more hours than I suspect you having trying to get a
Flatscreen tv (which was really just a cheap, but large LCD monitor)
to work with Xorg. Xorg simply wouldn't accept the resolutions I was
trying, most due to the fact that the resolutions I wasn't telling it
to use didn't agree with what it thought it was getting via EDID. I
finally got something close (after buying a brand new video card
hoping it would better than the onboard one) and just settled for
that.


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