Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 08:39 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
The current code does its best to figure out what modes are available and
tries to pick a good one for each display. It sounds like you're mainly
concerned with the actual mode picking, not the mode and output detection
and enumeration? If so, that's a pretty easy change to make. But if
you're also worried about the kernel building mode lists, then we'll have
bigger changes to make...
I'm worried that the EDID we get from the monitor is bogus and needs to
be overriden.
How often do that happen?
There is the alternate solution of assuming that EDID is correct,
and provide an override when it isn't. So anyone with a good monitor
get a nice display by default. Those with a defective lying monitor
may have to add a "resolution=640x480" parameter to their
kernel command line to get out of the black screen modus.
This shifts the bother to those with a bad monitor, who then are
free to get pissed off at their monitor vendor . . .
Helge Hafting
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