From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761075AbXGIXIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757304AbXGIXIF (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:08:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:33673 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757172AbXGIXIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 19:08:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4692BDEE.8020802@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:59:58 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Drake CC: Andrew Morton , Jan Beulich , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zwane@infradead.org, Andi Kleen , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [PATCH] retrieve VBE EDID/DDC info independent of used video mode References: <4678191D.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <4686D85B.6090803@gentoo.org> <20070630154230.4ad373fa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4690E65B.5050607@gentoo.org> <20070708111404.1486e73c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46912E09.2070806@zytor.com> <4692BC61.9070500@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4692BC61.9070500@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 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 Daniel Drake wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> The patch should be fine for 2.6.22, but for -mm, the code this patches >> doesn't even exist with git-newsetup; nor is there a CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT >> which could impede the production of the VESA version. >> >> What does your .config look like? > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=124339&action=view > User error. Please replace user and press any key. # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_EDID is not set The user has *explicitly* disabled acquisition of EDID from the firmware, so of course it doesn't probe for it. -hpa