Comment 11 for bug 107711

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William Cattey (wdc-mit) wrote :

Maarten:

Could you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log to this bug?

I'm curious about details of what your X server has gotten from the EDID fetch. On my Dell Optiplex 745, the EDID fetch sometimes comes back all zeros, instead of actually providing the monitor config data.

I have an xorg.conf that seems to more consistently fetch the EDID data, but I don't yet know why.
Two differences are that the line:
     Load "i2c"
is deleted and a line is added:
     Option "UseFBDev" "true"

Things started working when I added these lines. They seem to have changed the timing of the EDID fetch such that it was successful more often.

See also efforts to find the root cause of similar symptoms under Red Hat in the bug I opened there at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236416

-wdc