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Zac Witte · 11-17-06, 04:47 AM

OK, to make things easier on anyone else needing an answer to this, I'll post what I did to finally make it work. Its actually very simple.

Since my CRT monitor was giving bogus EDID data (or so it seems, but it works fine in windows) I needed to replace it with real data. Now I'm lucky because I have two identical screens - one is sending accurate EDID data and one isn't. I used the nvidia-settings tool to export the accurate edid data using the AquireEDID button and save it to a file called en9110edid.bin. Then in my xorg.conf in the screen section I add this line:

Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-0:/home/zac/en9110edid.bin"

and bingo bango it works. It would have made things a lot easier if I were told of this ability when we first discovered that I was getting bogus EDID data!

Thanks much for your help, netllama.

11-17-06, 04:47 AM	#21
Zac Witte Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 11	Re: (beta) nvidia-settings not detecting VGA monitor correctly OK, to make things easier on anyone else needing an answer to this, I'll post what I did to finally make it work. Its actually very simple. Since my CRT monitor was giving bogus EDID data (or so it seems, but it works fine in windows) I needed to replace it with real data. Now I'm lucky because I have two identical screens - one is sending accurate EDID data and one isn't. I used the nvidia-settings tool to export the accurate edid data using the AquireEDID button and save it to a file called en9110edid.bin. Then in my xorg.conf in the screen section I add this line: Option "CustomEDID" "CRT-0:/home/zac/en9110edid.bin" and bingo bango it works. It would have made things a lot easier if I were told of this ability when we first discovered that I was getting bogus EDID data! Thanks much for your help, netllama.