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.

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.

But most people(99.999%) will probably never have to worry about it.

Seablade

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@woh.rr.com> wrote:

Arnold Krille wrote:
> There is no system-overhead from re-calculating the pixels. Its done by the
> screen itself. But it usually looks ugly, so it is best to use the fixed
> maximum resolution of the flat-panel. Even if you set the base font size to
> bigger values. (Makes you find bad ui design in apps...)

I discovered that quickly enough. It's now at its maximum resolution, I
must say it's pretty nice, especially for movies. Ardour looked great on
it too, but I notice some "shimmering" on some other things. I'm still
playing with the contrast and some other controls to find the best settings.

Btw, how is the EDID accessed by the driver ? I mean, is it supposed to
reside in a certain place, do I have to load it, or whatever ? Is it
important to me ?

Best,

dp