[mythtv-users] Idea for possible workaround to stop bogus EDID data

Christopher David Petersen christopher.david.petersen at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 22:28:32 UTC 2007


On 10/12/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Christopher David Petersen wrote:
> >> Maybe try the brute force method:
> >>
> >> cd /etc
> >> grep -r "-dpi" *
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> > Thanks. I'm all for the brute approach, but if I don't have a -dpi
> > setting I won't find it.
>
> Well, yeah, but if you don't have it then you don't have a problem,
> right?  You can just set it in xorg.conf, then. ;)

Kind of...

The reason I'm seeking the -dpi argument is to force the SiS driver to
ignore bogus EDID information. I don't know if adding or removing the
-dpi will work or not. But I'm going to try it.

>
> >
> > I'd still like to know where it exists and what's the chain of
> > execution to start X (I sense a lot of RTFMing in my future).
>
> If you run X from the command line, the "startx" script takes care of
> actually kicking off the X binary.  If you're running some kind of
> graphical login (gdm/xdm/kdm/etc...) it's probably in the
> configuration file for that program -- check the manpage.  Once X is
> running control gets handed to either /etc/X11/Xsession (for
> graphical logins) or /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (for startx).  In many
> distributions one of these scripts simply sources the other.
>

Thanks! This is exactly what I need to get started. I really
appreciate it. I'm reading the man page for Xsession right now.


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