Re: Deleted screen never reappears in GCM device panel

[Vivien Perez <vivien perez gmail com>]

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 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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