EDID firmware resides in the monitor itself. You should never have to worry about it, unless something is shot on your monitor. X-Org will probe it for some basic information about your panel, to use in its configuration.<br>
<br>I did have to access it once, when I suspected my brand new monitor was dead. I had to dig out the full results of what was in the EDID to figure out what was wrong, and that it was a problem within the monitor. This was with a band new Samsung funnily enough. However I called up Samsung with this information, and within a half hour of being on the phone with them(One transfer as the person I got in touch with the first time was obviously entry level tech support and they realised very quickly I knew more than they did about it so they transferred me up to the higher ups), they were shipping out a new monitor to me to a local UPS store since I wasn't home most of the day, where I did my exchange there. Couldn't be happier with their service in that regards.<br>
<br>But most people(99.999%) will probably never have to worry about it.<br><br> Seablade<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Dave Phillips <<a href="mailto:dlphillips@woh.rr.com">dlphillips@woh.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Arnold Krille wrote:<br>
> There is no system-overhead from re-calculating the pixels. Its done by the<br>
> screen itself. But it usually looks ugly, so it is best to use the fixed<br>
> maximum resolution of the flat-panel. Even if you set the base font size to<br>
> bigger values. (Makes you find bad ui design in apps...)<br>
</div>I discovered that quickly enough. It's now at its maximum resolution, I<br>
must say it's pretty nice, especially for movies. Ardour looked great on<br>
it too, but I notice some "shimmering" on some other things. I'm still<br>
playing with the contrast and some other controls to find the best settings.<br>
<br>
Btw, how is the EDID accessed by the driver ? I mean, is it supposed to<br>
reside in a certain place, do I have to load it, or whatever ? Is it<br>
important to me ?<br>
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Best,<br>
<br>
dp<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>