On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote: > > Yeah if the edid probe fails userspace will get a hotplug and > autodisable the output. With a failsafe X session (just a dumb > terminal) we can avoid that to check that dpms on itself would work or > whether the edid probe fail here is just indicative of more trouble. > Also please boot with drm.debug=0xe, repro and grab dmesg, that might > shed some more light on what's failing.
Here is an annotated attachment with the dpms off output witj drm.debug=0xe. It turns out the real failure case doesn't seem to be when the bad EDID happens. See my notes interspersed with the dmesg output. Linus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dpms-failure Type: application/octet-stream Size: 79407 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20150107/32ad4248/attachment-0001.obj>