> With digital monitors you are almost always guaranteed to have an EDID > (IIRC, DVI and HDMI require it) which should prevent you from needing > to tweak the modeline as the EDID contains the supported modelines > from the monitor. > > Alex >
I have a Mini 10 netbook with poulsbo gfx / HDMI out which runs jaunty with the psb driver. I've only tried it on 2 different HDMI displays but the display didn't fit on either- I couldn't see my full desktop. Does this mean the psb driver is non-EDID aware? Poulsbo may be a bad example as its drivers don't have a great rep, so lets take my Dads Ion netbook as an example. I installed the binary, 185.x NV drivers under Karmic on it and tried it with 2 different displays and yet again the display did not fit on the screen. Searching the web I found many reports of others having the same problem- does this mean NV's binary Linux drivers are also non-EDID aware? With the same netbook (a HP/Compaq Mini 311) running XP and the latest NV Ion drivers I had exactly the same problem on both (different) displays I tried it on in that the desktop didn't fit the display properly but at least under Windows the NV config tool does have a tool for resizing and moving HDTV displays which meant I was able to set it up properly under Windows. Does this mean Nvidia's Windows driver doesn't detect EDID properly either or am I just really unlucky with my displays? With both Windows and Linux I've never had a faultless 'plug and play' experience with HDMI, thus the need for an updated xvidtune. Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg