Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1002 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011/07/24 21:09 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:

> i retrieved the computer from the merchant's shop an hour ago, and set
> it up with the new 19" monitor using its digital input connector. The
> computer and the monitor decided between them, without involving me,
> that 1280x1024 at 60Hz is the way to go, which is what I wanted.
> Clearly, the lack of EDID information from the monitor was the root of
> the problem.

After what I thought I remembered about earlier discussion, I was surprised 
to discover your new L1942PK turned out to not be a widescreen. :-)

Before SaX2 was dropped after 11.2, EDID wasn't so crucial as it seems to 
have become since 11.3 and KMS kernels. If EDID failed, it was a simple 
matter to use SaX2 to set up xorg.conf to produce desired results.

> With the old monitor removed from its restrictive location, in which it
> was clumsy to try to make out its date of manufacture, I see that it was
> made in 2003. Either it lacked the EDID support from the beginning, or
> it lost it at some later point. It has only an analog input; is EDID
> supported only in digital monitors?

EDID predates the century and the virtual vacation of CRTs from the 
marketplace. EDID failure happening after warranty expiration is hardly 
unknown. The vast majority of 17" & 19" Trinitrons I've encountered have lost 
theirs. Sometimes the problem is actually the motherboard or gfxcard 
connector or the cable. If the connection is bad in the wrong pin, or a cable 
is used that doesn't connect all 15 pins, visibly or otherwise, it can have 
the same effect as missing or bad EDID.

> The spontaneous reboot behavior didn't occur over the weekend while the
> technician was letting the computer run -- in other words, a rare event
> happened not to occur in a specific two-day interval. If it happens
> again, I will print out the relevant section of the log to show them.

With any luck those spontaneous reboots were related to using the old LCD, 
and thus won't happen any more.

Did you ever install a kernel newer than 2.6.37 (with 1-click?), or just the 
newer xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-229.1 from software.opensuse.org?
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