Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Oct 27 17:59:02 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 01:37:41PM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:

>    But thats (unfortunately) exactly what I have to do because the device
>    isn't running Linux.  :-(

Yeah, this probably isn't the right place to be asking, then.

>    I knew it was I2C, but on what bus and 'how do I get there from here'?
>    It would have to be on the video interface/card(s) right?

Right. Your GPU will typically have a per-output i2c bus, and EDID is in 
an eeprom stored at a well-defined address on that.

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