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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:39:16 +1100
From: "Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       "Giuseppe Bilotta" <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>,
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> > > 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..
>
> In which case the same problem would occur with different video cards, so
> this patch should be some generic thing, available to all drivers, no?
>

It should be in the fb layer not card specific.. as it may happen on any card...

Dave.
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