Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] nvidiafb: allow ignoring EDID info

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

On 2/8/07, Luca Tettamanti <kronos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Il Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:00PM +0000, James Simmons ha scritto:
> > There is no stand alone nvidia card i2c driver. Its the issue of sharing
> > device interfaces with the same hardware problem again!!!
>
> Nah, nvidiafb registers the I2C busses, you can drive them with whatever
> you want through the devices exported by I2C core.
> The fact the none of them work makes me think that the EDID is coming
> from the BIOS, we do VBE calls in real mode during early kernel setup.

So what am I supposed to do to dump it, since neither i2cdump neither
get-edid seem to work?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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