I just ran a new test case: I managed to run the version 6.8.2 X server under RHEL 5 which normally runs the 7.1.1 X server. I got it to go far enough to manifest the SAME "partial read with zero padding" flakiness that stock RHEL 5, and which Ubuntu 7.04 manifest.
I conclude that this is a kernel problem. It seems to affect the VESA EDID fetch under Red Hat, Ubuntu, and perhaps SLED 10.1. I've never before submitted a bug to kernel.org, but that seems like the next step. Can anyone advise me the polite way to move this forward? Note that a stand alone utility, get-edid (which is actually available as the Debian read-edid package) is always 100% successful in the EDID transfer, and so part of the mystery is, "Why does X fail whereas the small stand-alone utility succeed?" Who wants to help resolve this mystery? Or are people going to say, "The reverse engineered Radeon Server is going to take care of this so we don't need to care." and wait for some OTHER manifestation of this bug to hurt people? -- [regression] 7.2 broke vesa: "No matching modes found" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
