Comment 27 for bug 205093

Hello everybody,

I had the exactly same problem with my screen IIYAMA E2607WS and my laptop equipped with a NVIDIA GeForce 5200FX under kubuntu 8.10. I begun to be really fed up about this.
After a lot of tests It appears effectively that there is a bug inside xorg server which is unable to read EDID data from external screen.
To solve my problem and make my screen works on VGA port with a 1920x1200 resolution, I did this
 - I install read-edid with "sudo apt-get install read-edid"
 - I launch the related command and redirect output : "sudo get-edid > tmp.txt"
 - I parse the resulted file : "parse-edid < tmp.txt"
 - It gives you everything already correctly printed for your xorg.conf file. Just include it in. (in fact it will overwrite incorrect default values by real and adapted values from and for your monitor)
 - restart you xserver and configure as you want with nvidia-settings tool.

I hope it will help you

Bye