From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mwesten Subject: Re: Monitor with corrupted EDID Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:37:41 -0500 Message-ID: <51140285.4000108@verizon.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org Errors-To: nouveau-bounces+gcfxn-nouveau=m.gmane.org-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org List-Id: nouveau.vger.kernel.org On 02/07/2013 10:16 AM, Flavio Castelli wrote: > For an unknown reason both my monitors ended up with a corrupted EDID. > They both provide VGA and DVI input. The VGA input works fine, while > DVI is broken because of the EDID issue. > > Using these [1] instructions I have been able to read the EDID and fix > it. Unfortunately I'm not able to write it back to the eeprom. > I always get this message: > i2c i2c-1: sendbytes: NAK bailout. > > This is what I usually see in /var/log/message > [dump of the EDID] > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DVI-D-1: EDID block 0 invalid. > [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for DVI-D-1 > > Do you know why writing to the monitor does not work? I suspect the > eeprom is write protected > > Googling a bit I noticed the nvidia driver allows to ignore the EDID > returned by the monitor and use a custom one. I looks like the nouveau > drivers do not offer this feature. Am I wrong? > > These are my specs: > * kernel: 3.4.11-2.16-desktop > * architecture: x86_64 > * distribution: openSUSE 12.2 > * xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau-0.0.16_20120321_ab7291d-3.5.1.x86_64 > * X.Org X Server 1.12.3 > * NVIDIA Corporation G84M [Quadro FX 570M] > * Monitor 1: lenovo l220x wide > * Monitor 2: lenovo l2440p > > > What should I do? > > Thanks in advance > Flavio > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau > I recently used a DOS program called ddcw.exe to fix the corrupted EDID on one of my monitors. See this site, http://byuu.org/articles/computing/edid and get it here, http://www.komeil.com/download/2984 If that doesn't work, the drm_kms_helper module in newer kernels should have a parameter to get around the problem. See https://www.osadl.org/Single-View.111+M50eaf2f2c66.0.html -Mike