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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 package

  1. Bug #196596
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 196596

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Michael Doube (michael-doube) wrote :

Booting with the i386 version of the LiveCD (required because of 1386 limitation to read-edid) was fine - correct screen res detected, nv driver installed, progress bar during boot. All the problems I've seen have been in the 64-bit LiveCD. Here's the output of get-edid:

get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
 Function supported
 Call successful

 VBE version 300
 VBE string at 0x11110 "NVIDIA"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
 Report DDC capabilities

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
 Function supported
 Call successful

 Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
 Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
 0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
 Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
 Read EDID

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
 Function supported
 Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged