Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
Hi there, not sure if this is the right newsgroup, but it's worth a shot. I've just installed Jessie i586 on an Intel Atom board. The board has has DVI output which is connected to a monitor. When booting, I can perfectly see the image during grub2 and also during early printk. Then comes the

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Felix Miata
Johannes Bauer composed on 2015-09-06 11:45 (UTC+0200): > My guess is that it's trying to do some font switching or frame buffer > stuff, can't read what the monitor has to offer and switches to a weird > setting. The system is alive (can ssh into it), but I'd like console > output as well. > So

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-09-06 12:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:45:30 -0400 (EDT), Johannes Bauer wrote: >> >> [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 43 > > Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. > Windows is more tolerant

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:45:30 -0400 (EDT), Johannes Bauer wrote: > > [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 43 Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. Windows is more tolerant of EDID checksum errors than Linux is. If switching

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:07:32 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2015-09-06 12:31 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Some monitors have invalid EDID checksums. Blame the manufacturer. >> Windows is more tolerant of EDID checksum errors than Linux is. >> If switching monitors solves your

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Felix Miata
Johannes Bauer composed on 2015-09-06 11:45 (UTC+0200): > not sure if this is the right newsgroup, but it's worth a shot. > I've just installed Jessie i586 on an Intel Atom board. The board has > has DVI output which is connected to a monitor. > When booting, I can perfectly see the image

Re: Screen goes blank after "EDID checksum is invalid" errors

2015-09-06 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 06.09.2015 19:40, Stephen Powell wrote: > The OP said that what he included in this problem report came from > another problem report, because it scrolled off the screen too fast > for him to give actual data. True, but it was pretty damn close (lots of 0xffs) > (Perhaps he doesn't know