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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:12:57 +1100
From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info
Cc: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> > Some nVidia video cards have broken EDID information. Using nvidiafb
> > with CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C enabled on these systems causes the console
> > framebuffer to use wrong timing information, causing the display to be
> > extremely 'snowy'. Since most distribution kernels are compiled with
> > CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C enabled, this prevents usage of the nvidia
> > framebuffer on said broken system without recompiling the kernel
> > (or at least the nvidiafb module).
> >
> > Solve the issue by introducing a new boolean module parameter (useedid)
> > which can be set to 0 to prevent the driver from using the EDID
> > information.
> >
> > If this patch is accepted, we can probably get rid of CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA_I2C
> > altogether.
> >
>
> That's a pretty sad solution.  Is it possible to detect these bad cards at
> runtime via ther behaviour?  If not, can we generate a blacklist for the
> known-bad cards based on PCI IDs or something?
>
> Because most users won't even be aware of the module option: they'll just
> know that their card doesn't work right.

This isn't a card problem this is a monitor problem, the card just
passes through the edid data from the monitor... or else the
programming of the card registers from edid is wrong..

Dave.
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