From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756820AbXGBUOW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:14:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756442AbXGBUOH (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:14:07 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48612 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753499AbXGBUOG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:14:06 -0400 Message-ID: <46895C76.5090702@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:13:42 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake CC: Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , zwane@infradead.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode References: <4678191D.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <4686D85B.6090803@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4686D85B.6090803@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/30/2007 06:25 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Jan Beulich wrote: >> The code to retrieve this information was (a) inside a >> CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT >> section and (b) protected by a check of a variable (vbe_version) that >> would get initialized only when a VESA mode was selected on the command >> line. > > This patch solves a 2.6.20.11 (and 2.6.21) regression added by the patch > titled "x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2" > > The regression caused the screen resolution to be incorrectly adjusted > by 6 pixels. This patch makes it go back to normal again. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181067 > > Well, that explains this too I'd guess: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245741