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Subject: Re: Vesa fix
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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.