Deleted screen never reappears in GCM device panel
Vivien Perez
vivien.perez at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 20:22:36 UTC 2010
Here is the .bin file from gcm-dump-edid.
Just for the record, gcm used to work very well for the past few months,
and got broken around the time I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10, so it might
be related.
Thanks,
Vivien
On 17/10/2010 22:13, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 17 October 2010 21:02, Vivien Perez<vivien.perez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I deleted the screen by using the Remove button in the Device panel. I'm
>> using the ATI driver (fglrx 2:8.780-0ubuntu2).
>>
> Right, I've not tested GCM with any of the non-free drivers, although
> it should work.
>
>
>> I noticed that running "gcm-prefs -v" in a terminal gave an error message
>> related to my screen's edid:
>> TI:21:49:53.860823 FI:gcm-client.c FN:gcm_client_xrandr_add,607
>> - failed to set for output: failed to parse edid
>>
> Ohh, can you attach the .bin file from gcm-dump-edid please.
>
>
>> So I'm wondering whether my problem could be related to this edid issue.
>>
> Sure, GCM just uses the edid to get the device data for the monitor.
>
>
>> Will gcm correctly detect my screen if I manually specify it in the
>> device-profiles.conf file?
>>
> Yes, although I'm not sure GCM will assign the profile and set things
> like the vcgt data if you do this. It would be better to fix the
> profile parsing in my opinion.
>
> Richard.
>
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