EDID configuration needed for NVIDIA driver

[MGHG]

Binary package hint: xorg

My computer is a Sony Vaio VPCF11M1E with screen resolution of 1920*1080 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics card. After installation of Lucid Beta2 the appearance is not entirely correct (the screen shows a part of 2048*1536 that is the maximum resolution of the graphics card) and I thus started Hardware Drivers (jockey) in order to activate the proprietary NVIDIA driver. However, there are some error messages after activation (e.g. "This driver was just disabled, but is still in use") and after the next boot the screen is shifted a third to the left (the left edge and menus are actually at the right part of the screen) at low resolution.

After some help and www-searching, I have learned that this issue is due to that the latest NVIDIA drivers do not support the screen on a Sony Vaio automatically and that is required to explicitly specify the EDID dataset. The problem is rather easy to deal with by adding the following two lines to the "Device" section of xorg.conf:

    Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
    Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0: /proc/acpi/video/NGFX/LCD/EDID"

See also Ubuntu Forums thread "Lucid Installation Experience Sony Vaio VPCF11FB" http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1445212 and "VIDIASetup - vaio-f11-linux - Setting up X11 with NVIDIA's driver for the Vaio's new display using an EDID file" http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/wiki/NVIDIASetup

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-020633-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 17 15:28:46 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=sv_SE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.33-020633-generic

[MGHG (mghg)]

The bug is present also when using the 2.6.32 kernel

[Maarten Kossen (mpkossen)]

I can confirm this is still an issue in the 10.04 LTS release. I have a Sony Vaio VPCF11C5E with the same specs as the reporter.

[dimmaq (diman111)]

+1
Vaio VPCF11S1R. 10.10 Maverick
:(

[Maarten Kossen (mpkossen)]

Works on Maverick for me.