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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 15:01 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
The LVDS code ignores any connector for which it cannot find a fixed mode (through an EDID, vBIOS tables or the current active mode). Some platforms may include an LVDS header on the board and this may then be partnered with a panel without an EDID. This results in us ignoring the connector and not lighting up the panel.
Yeah not like this.
you want to make the command line the *last* option we use, the final fallback. LVDS panels have EDID and VBT hardcoded modes for a good reason, they don't work with other modes that well. You always want to use a scaler on the LVDS panel to do modes not the native mode. So if I have a VBT or EDID and you set video= I should get a scaled mode, not garbage.
So what I suspect you really want is to leave video= alone or enhance it somehow, or maybe add i915.lvds_native_mode= parameter.
Hi Chris