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

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Date:	Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:08:33 +0200
From:	Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>
To:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
CC:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@...radead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video
 mode

Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:17 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
>>> Sorry if this has been hashed out before, but could you point me towards 
>>> the gentoo bugzilla entry? I'm trying to understand how your setup broke. 
>>> Which version VBE does your system have?
>> Here's the bug:
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067
>>
> 
> Looking at the dmesg output of the working and failing kernel, it does
> seem that there's no EDID block available in the failing kernel.
> 
>> How can we identify the VBE version?

You could use http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/ and you get the EDID and VBE version


Regards,

Gabriel
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