Re: Vesa fix

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
14 May 2003 00:01:36 +0100


On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 18:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:44:29PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > The results of the EDID info from the BIOS has been varied. For some it
> > worked. Others it gave the wrong data. Then for other even the headers
> > where corrupted :-(
>
> XFree86 seems to do a pretty good job of getting it right, maybe they
> have blacklists ? Then again, this stuff is arguably better off done
> in userspace anyway IMO.

XFree handles EDID per driver and uses different methods in different
drivers.

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