On 2011-04-21 05:54 +0200, Joe Neal wrote: > I recently upgraded my sid box with a Gforce 8600. Following a reboot > the binary nvidia drivers would only give me a screen resolution so > small it was unusable and nouveau failed to find any usable resolutions > at all. Analysis of recent X logs indicated that in the case of both > drivers, EDID reads were failing, providing X with no data. When > testing with a GRML live CD, EDID data was returned using nouveau, so > this isn't a hardware problem. > > Since the problem occurs with both nvidia drivers, it's not a driver > problem. Since EDID reads work properly with the GRML live CD it's not > a hardware problem. I don't think any X packages have been upgraded at > all since the last boot that could have caused the problem. I'm at a > loss as to where the problem is coming from. > > Any guesses?
I don't really have an idea myself, but some people reported a problem with corrupted EDID on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34554. The information in that bug may be useful. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipu8ch82....@turtle.gmx.de
