linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode

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Message-ID: <4692BDEE.8020802@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:59:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zwane@...radead.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video
 mode

Daniel Drake wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> The patch should be fine for 2.6.22, but for -mm, the code this patches
>> doesn't even exist with git-newsetup; nor is there a CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT
>> which could impede the production of the VESA version.
>>
>> What does your .config look like?
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=124339&action=view
> 

User error.
Please replace user and press any key.

# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set

The user has *explicitly* disabled acquisition of EDID from the
firmware, so of course it doesn't probe for it.

	-hpa
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