testing new intel driver i915 - no EDID found(rev 34907b727e888fd60358a5a3b554c946d4b3d38a)

Stefan Wendler stefan.wendler at tngtech.com
Sun Nov 22 00:41:44 UTC 2015


On Sunday 22 November 2015 01:17:09 Stefan Wendler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I still have the problem that the screen is blank with just backlight on. I
> can type and stuff but I don't see anything. What I have seen in dmesg
> (among other errors) is that it won't find my CRTs EDID. May this be the/a
> reason? Is there a way to solve this on my own? Or is this still a bug?
> 
> Cheers,
> Stefan

One thing that might be a problem as well is that I have two cards. An intel 
and an nvidia. The nvidia is this crippled thingy that writes into intels vram 
but has no direct output. I have the same behavior (blank screen) when I 
accidentally specify the wrong PCI BusID in xorg.conf.

Cheers


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