On , Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:47 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Atilla Filiz wrote: > > > > Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally black > > > > screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers. A workaround is to dump > > > > the EDID of the LCD panel into a file and use an xorg.conf file to force X > > > > to use custom EDID. This time, system console(the one you reach via > > > > ctrl+alt-f) go blank. > > > > Nouveau works without problems. > > > > What would be the proper solution to this problem? Is it a fault > > > > correctable by Xorg or are Nvidia people to be contacted to resolve this? > > > > > > nvidia need to add support for requesting the EDID via ACPI. > > The recent versions of NVIDIA's driver should support this OK from what > > I can tell, I don't have the effected hardware to say for sure. Latest 260.xx doesn't need the EDID file and it doesn't crash like earlier 260.xx, but VTs are still broken after X starts. I think some other Sony models are still seeing crashes though.