[olug] EDID and xorg.conf

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 14:50:11 UTC 2009


I ran into this before. You need to run a utility (get-edid or
read-edid?) to read the edid info from the monitor. Then you can
configure xorg to load this edid file. I'd look up more info for you,
but I'm out the door.

-- T. J. Brumfield

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Dave Thacker<dthacker9 at cox.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to get my nvidia drivers to recognize a NEC Multisync 95 19" CRT
> and allow higher resolution than 640x480.   Running X -configure discloses
> that X is having problems reading the EDID for the display.   Is there a way
> to furnish that to X at the command line, or am I just stuck building a
> custom xorg.conf by hand?
>
> Dave
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