On 7/5/24 10:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
The monitor on this box is connected via a KVM switch, which may not be set to
this machine at boot time. Then I get a default VT screen size which is too
tall - it can't show the last three lines or so.
The kernel documents show that an EDID data file can be read from /lib/firmware,
and I've run get-edid to create it, but now what is it supposed to be called?
The kernel menuconfig points to a Documentation file, but that doesn't help
either.
I could try guessing, but who knows how long that might take? Actually, I did
try naming it /lib/firmware/edid.bin, but of course that didn't work.
I did this years ago, and of course can't remember any of the details.
However, I do think you can name it anything you want - you just need to
refer to it by name in the right config file, and I don't remember if
that is done the same place as the kernel firmware is specified, or
perhaps as a parameter for the kernel video driver module. I was also
going to suggest an X config option, but that's probably too late in the
process. I know this isn't all that helpful - but you might try modinfo
on your video kernel module to see if it's listed.
