EDID autodetection fail, whom to blame?

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On , Ben Skeggs <skeggsb at 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.
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