EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

[Matthew Garrett]

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<1-6>) 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.

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