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To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: [Bug 49789] External monitor flickers on xrandr or cat /sys/class/drm/card0-VGA-1/status
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:23:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-49789-502-SC7P2kIxJK@http.bugs.freedesktop.org/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-49789-502@http.bugs.freedesktop.org/>

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49789

--- Comment #4 from Alex Deucher <agd5f@yahoo.com> 2012-05-11 10:23:56 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Can I somehow find out (log files, whatever), whether the monitor has an EDID
> or not, after it has been connected? Because then I could turn off the polling
> for the time being, or at least reduce the polling interval.
> 

You can check the `xrandr --verbose` output.

> With regard to the events: I've tried using udev to react to the hotplug
> events, but it wouldn't work reliably. It would successfully recognize a
> monitor the first time, but fail to trigger on disconnect or later connect
> attempts. So unfortunately, my approach was and probably is the only
> viable/reliable here to do it automatically.

What kernel are you using?  There were some problems with disconnects not
getting detected in certain cases with that were fixed in 3.3 IIRC.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11 11:37 [Bug 49789] New: External monitor flickers on xrandr or cat /sys/class/drm/card0-VGA-1/status bugzilla-daemon
2012-05-11 11:38 ` [Bug 49789] " bugzilla-daemon
2012-05-11 14:50 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-05-11 15:10 ` bugzilla-daemon
2012-05-11 17:23 ` bugzilla-daemon [this message]
2012-05-15  9:01 ` bugzilla-daemon

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