From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Vesa fix
Date: 14 May 2003 00:01:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052866894.1206.16.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030513175022.GA3309@suse.de>
On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 18:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:44:29PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > The results of the EDID info from the BIOS has been varied. For some it
> > worked. Others it gave the wrong data. Then for other even the headers
> > where corrupted :-(
>
> XFree86 seems to do a pretty good job of getting it right, maybe they
> have blacklists ? Then again, this stuff is arguably better off done
> in userspace anyway IMO.
XFree handles EDID per driver and uses different methods in different
drivers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-13 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-12 21:44 James Simmons
2003-05-12 21:53 ` James Simmons
2003-05-13 17:50 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-13 23:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-14 22:45 ` James Simmons
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