Why EDID is not trustworthy for DPI

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> How about "EDID as it exists today". Since you're able to so beautifully
> explain what the pitfalls are, I'd assume you've raised this with the
> VESA and asked that they revisit this in the future to accurately
> provide DPI information that Operating Systems can rely on?

The specification provides everything needed to express this data 
accurately, and proves the worth of specifications by virtue of 
approximately nobody actually implementing it correctly.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org