@Ernst: You're saying that you saw the behavior regress in maverick when you did updates, correct? You don't happen to know the kernel versions before and after the update, do you?
Suspiciously, there's a patch dealing specifically with EDID handling on Intel graphics that would have first gone out in maverick in that general time frame. It's was first released upstream in 2.6.37-rc8. commit 2c78465d1734bc8c8263aa332ee301ac740f74bc Author: David Flynn <dav...@rd.bbc.co.uk> Date: Wed Dec 8 16:10:21 2010 +0000 drm/i915/dp: Fix I2C/EDID handling with active DisplayPort to DVI converter -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/712075 Title: [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs