Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used videomode

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Mon Jul 02 2007 - 16:14:23 EST


On 06/30/2007 06:25 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Jan Beulich wrote:
>> The code to retrieve this information was (a) inside a
>> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT
>> section and (b) protected by a check of a variable (vbe_version) that
>> would get initialized only when a VESA mode was selected on the command
>> line.
>
> This patch solves a 2.6.20.11 (and 2.6.21) regression added by the patch
> titled "x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2"
>
> The regression caused the screen resolution to be incorrectly adjusted
> by 6 pixels. This patch makes it go back to normal again.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067
>
>

Well, that explains this too I'd guess:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245741


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