Hi, On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:56:31PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > So that leaves us with a puzzle: does that mean that 2.6.38-3~bpo60+1 > fixed it (forgetting about the drm.edid_strict parameter for a moment)? no. Without drm.edid_strict=0 the error occurs (every 10 seconds ...). With drm.edid_strict=0 given, the error doesn't occur but KMS gets disabled (don't know why and figured this out only today, when I got to the machine (did this test via a serial line behind a ssh connection on tuesday).
> Ah, sorry I wasn't clearer before. The edid_strict patch is something > Alex had been thinking about but it is not in appliable shape (it does > not have strict enough buffer size checks to cope with e.g. > maliciously made hardware). And of course it's even better if it is > possible through a driver change to get an uncorrupted edid. Hm, I see (and agree). So we/I'll wait for a fix from upstream. I got back to drm_kms_helper.poll=0 for now. Regards, Martin
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