Re: CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT stole my will to live

Petr Vandrovec (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Tue, 20 May 2003 20:05:12 +0200


On 20 May 03 at 18:18, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:55:41PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
>
> > > Wasn't the EDID stuff getting backed out anyways ?
> > Only in the VESA driver. Some people did have luck with the BIOS EDID info
> > so I like to keep the BIOS call in there.
>
> That code runs way earlier than before we get to do any PCI quirks,
> so fixing that one up could be interesting.

On my system (G450 + Compaq MV600 + TV) this EDID call takes about
5 seconds (fortunately it does not die), so I'll be happy if I can config
this out - especially as matroxfb gives you DDC access from inside Linux.
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz

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