EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

tom fogal tfogal at sci.utah.edu
Tue Jan 18 11:00:20 PST 2011


Atilla Filiz <atilla.filiz at gmail.com> writes:
> Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally
> black screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers.
[snip]
> 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?

Sounds like an nvidia bug, since noveau works.

They provide an `nvidia-bug-report.sh' or something like that to
prepare a bug report && send it off.

-tom



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