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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst (renamed from Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst) | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst index b1b5acd501ed..80deeb21a265 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/edid.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/edid.rst @@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ Today, with the advent of Kernel Mode Setting, a graphics board is either correctly working because all components follow the standards - or the computer is unusable, because the screen remains dark after booting or it displays the wrong area. Cases when this happens are: + - The graphics board does not recognize the monitor. - The graphics board is unable to detect any EDID data. - The graphics board incorrectly forwards EDID data to the driver. - The monitor sends no or bogus EDID data. - A KVM sends its own EDID data instead of querying the connected monitor. + Adding the kernel parameter "nomodeset" helps in most cases, but causes restrictions later on. @@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ individual data for a specific misbehaving monitor, commented sources and a Makefile environment are given here. To create binary EDID and C source code files from the existing data -material, simply type "make". +material, simply type "make" in tools/edid/. If you want to create your own EDID file, copy the file 1024x768.S, replace the settings with your own data and add a new target to the |