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

From: Antonino A. Daplas
Date: Wed Aug 01 2007 - 23:10:45 EST


On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:54 +0800, 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.
>

BTW, I looked at the above bug report, it seems his last dmesg does not
have fbcon enabled. Make sure that CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y before
doing more tests (the problem of lack of the EDID block in the failing
kernel still applies).

Tony

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