desperately seeking "IgnoreEDID"

[Konstantin Svist]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> Quoting Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>:
>
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> Quoting Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Try using fglrx instead of radeon driver. It has much better support
>>>> for recognizing bad EDID. At least it works
>>>> properly on my external monitor (while radeon and radeonhd
>>>> fuck up the resolution)
>>>
>>> ok, but keep in mind we're not talking about "bad" EDID,
>>> just *unwanted* EDID which might be perfectly valid.  what
>>> i'm hoping is that fglrx will honour the "IgnoreEDID"
>>> directive in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
>
>> Right, I meant exactly that. My StarLogic monitors return some EDID that
>> causes radeon* drivers to display a lower resolution.
>> fglrx works perfectly for me.
>
> excellent, i'll give that a shot first thing tomorrow morning.  i'm
> guessing that my system won't have the flgrx module, so i'm assuming
> i'll have to track it down.
>
> rday
>

It's in the Livna repo: http://rpm.livna.org/

~Konstantin