Re: Vesa fix

James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Wed, 14 May 2003 23:45:28 +0100 (BST)

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> > XFree86 seems to do a pretty good job of getting it right, maybe they
> > have blacklists ? Then again, this stuff is arguably better off done
> > in userspace anyway IMO.

Not helpful on platforms which lack a hardware text mode.

> XFree handles EDID per driver and uses different methods in different
> drivers.

So I found out the hardware. BIOS are evil!!!!!

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