>> In my experience a VESA BIOS will sometimes report >> different available modes depending on the detected >> EDID. > > I have no problem believing this is true, but I'm also sure > there's more to > it than that.
I agree. One problem is that these things are all different, almost completely undocumented, and implement non-standard modes seemingly at random. Some people involved with various OSX86[0] efforts have developed methods for probing (and in some cases, modifiying) the VESA BIOS on some cards. All kinds of strange behaviors have been observed. > I'd be interested in a survey with broader results > than just dueling anecdotes I haven't made any attempt to catalogue VESA vs EDID discrepancies, but I do keep a small archive of hardware info here: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/hardware We try to collect the sysinfo[1] output for as many systems as possible, for later reference. sl [0] http://www.osx86project.org [1] http://man.aiju.de/1/sysinfo
