On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Atilla Filiz wrote: > Some of the newer Sony Vaio laptops with Nvidia GPUs show a totally black > screen when X starts with the propiatery drivers. A workaround is to dump > the EDID of the LCD panel into a file and use an xorg.conf file to force X > to use custom EDID. This time, system console(the one you reach via > ctrl+alt-f<1-6>) go blank. > Nouveau works without problems. > What would be the proper solution to this problem? Is it a fault > correctable by Xorg or are Nvidia people to be contacted to resolve this?
nvidia need to add support for requesting the EDID via ACPI. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
