Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 19:59:38 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, danfe@freebsd.org, linux@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extracting screen's EDID-information from ACPI Message-ID: <20100522165938.GV83316@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <4BF55F80.2060409@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4BF55F80.2060409@aldan.algebra.com>
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--56jnwYyHVsKJlmXZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 12:12:48PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > Hello! >=20 > I'm struggling to get a Vaio-laptop with NVidia graphics to work properly. >=20 > NVidia's own driver (from x11/nvidia-driver) does not "see" the laptop's = own > built-in screen. Linux users have solved this problem: >=20 > http://code.google.com/p/vaio-f11-linux/wiki/NVIDIASetup >=20 > but that requires reading ACPI-data via the Linux' proc-filesystem: >=20 > /proc/acpi/video/NGFX/LCD/EDID >=20 > FreeBSD's /proc does not have the acpi subdirectory, and neither does our > /compat/linux/proc >=20 > I'm sure, acpidump can extract the needed info, but I don't know, how :-( >=20 > I put the disassembled dump (acpidump -dt) of this laptop to: >=20 > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/VPCF11M1E.acpidump.bz2 >=20 > Is the necessary information (128 raw bytes or so) in there? >=20 > Could somebody give an idea? Thanks! >=20 > -mi >=20 > P.S. The laptop runs 8.1-prerelease/i386 My hybrid (Z820) only provides EDID information when switched to use intel graphics. Nvidia driver reports that no screens are attached. I use the following in xorg.conf to force the driver to attach. Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "GeForce 9300M GS" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0,DFP-1" Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true" Option "ModeValidation" "NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck" Option "Coolbits" "1" EndSection --56jnwYyHVsKJlmXZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkv4DXoACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4jtzACg2TJEuvBoXB9tu8HBTmQllYvT Q2EAoLx+t+m3VawQidPQz2YZ41vrD2Wu =pl+o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --56jnwYyHVsKJlmXZ--
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