From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: The Fungi Subject: Re: Specific resolution without monitor Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:38 +0000 Message-ID: <20120517115637.GF723@yuggoth.org> References: <4FB404A7.40109@cbnco.com> <4FB48B1E.3010807@vtnd.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36979E82E for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 05:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([10.127.143.53]) by cdptpa-qmta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20120517115744618.SAXB19895@cdptpa-qmta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:57:44 +0000 Received: from cthulhu.yuggoth.org ([2001:470:8:d2f::32]) by dagon.yuggoth.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUzJv-0005MP-0a for intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:39 +0000 Received: from fungi by cthulhu.yuggoth.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUzJu-0007jN-GJ for intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:56:38 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FB48B1E.3010807@vtnd.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On 2012-05-17 07:22:38 +0200 (+0200), Oliver Seitz wrote: [...] > But, if a monitor is connected but turned off, the monitor should > be configured anyway. The EDID transmitting device inside the > monitor is powered by the computer. [...] This is unfortunately not always the case. For example, one of my computers is used as an HTPC and its monitor is an early generation Sony HDTV connected via HDMI. It *does* respond to EDID requests, but only when powered on and switched to that specific input. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fungi@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fungi@yuggoth.org); MUD(kinrui@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fungi@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); }