* Adam Van Ymeren adam.vany@gmail.com [170114 04:49]:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Lyberta lyberta@lyberta.net wrote:
i'm not going to make any such restrictions in software. if someone plugs in a 1080p VGA monitor, and through the EDID interface it's detected, and the OS and the SoC is capable of it, good for them.
And what if there is no EDID?
Then you're using a really esoteric display and you'll have to manually configure the modes in your software.
From my experience there are a *lot* of monitors out there with a
strange understanding of the EDID standard. But if that fails linux will do a lot of guesswork to get it right, or you would have to manually fiddle with it.
EDID is also one of the many standards that I have written that contradict themselves on the *same* page several times...
And it is behind the big scary NDA wall so one cannot verify any of my claims of course...
Cheers,
Christian
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