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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