[Bug 12880] Display dimensions are not detected on Mobility X700

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12880





--- Comment #7 from Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com>  2008-01-18 10:53:31 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> 
> Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but why is it necessary to extract the physical
> size from the bios tables when it is being correctly reported in the monitor
> EDID information?  Might it make sense to use the EDID information until it is
> possible to read the size from the bios tables?  (Depending on the predicted
> time to get that working, of course)
> 

If it's available in the EDID, we use it, but not all laptop panels provide an
EDID.  In cases without an EDID, we may be able to get the physical size out of
the bios tables, in other cases we have no physical size information period.


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