On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:27:18 -0500 (CDT), Mike Isely <[email protected]> wrote:
> Keep in mind that if the probe action is returning wrong results, that's 
> worse than no results.  This isn't a question about "supplying missing 
> data" so much as it a case of "overriding bad data".  Without that fixed 
> mode disabling ability, it is very possible that the panel will simply 
> be set up wrong with a corrupted display, with no possible means for the 
> user to repair the problem.  That's what led me to make the change, and 
> that same change had been living peacefully in the userspace xorg 
> driver, up until the point that UMS had been removed from it.  Right now 
> without the ability to disable fixed mode there simply *is no* 
> workaround.

Point taken. If we can't get a resolution on i915.lvds_fixed_mode= within
the next week, let's focus on the workaround instead.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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