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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:44:29PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:

 >    The results of the EDID info from the BIOS has been varied. For some it 
 > worked. Others it gave the wrong data. Then for other even the headers 
 > where corrupted :-( 

XFree86 seems to do a pretty good job of getting it right, maybe they
have blacklists ? Then again, this stuff is arguably better off done
in userspace anyway IMO.

		Dave