EDID and KMS

[bridgman]

It's not likely to harm your monitor, but if you wanted to be sure you could probably look at the logs when running UMS and find out the exact timing entry (presumably one of the X server defaults) that you were using before, then tweak your new settings to match.

[MQDuck]

So it works, but there's one thing that has me worried. I use a CRT monitor. Although I used 'gtf' to generate an entry using the same horizontal resolution, vertical resolution and refresh rate that're detected with IgnoreEDID (as well as by Windows), *something* is different, since I have to fiddle with the monitor controls again (size, position, pincushion, etc.). Do I have any reason so worry that this indicates that it's set wrong and therefore could harm my monitor?

[MQDuck]

Fantastic. Thanks!

[agd5f]

You don't need a custom EDID, you just have to add modelines to your xorg config for the modes you want to add. THis page is a good reference:

http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

[MQDuck]

Does that mean editing a custom EDID file? Are there any guides for that? (I haven't found any)

[agd5f]

The driver only exposes modes that are in the EDID provided by the monitor. Arbitrary modes (like 1280x960) have to be added manually.

[MQDuck]

I've been using the latest Git-sourced versions of radeon, mesa, and libdrm and they've largely been working great, but X fails to detect all video resolutions my monitor is capable of, including my preferred resolution (1280x960). This was irritating until I found the "IgnoreEDID" option in xorg.conf.

However, I just recompiled my kernel with the "Enable modesetting on radeon by default" option set. Works fine (well, sometimes) except I'm stuck with the same limited number of resolutions again. "IgnoreEDID" is itself completely ignored.

Any ideas what the explanation (and resolution, hopefully) is?