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Faking monitor EDID information

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Mar 15, 202614595 views
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Problem

My monitor is sort of finicky. Sometimes I run a program that cycles through resolutions and the monitor will refuse to give its EDID information for a few days: This causes the video card to think the maximum resolution it will support is 1600x1200, whereas I was running it at the optimal 1680x105…

Error Output

(/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
[   239.653] (II) fglrx(0): Restoring Recent Mode via PCS is not supported in RANDR 1.2 capable environments
[   260.113] (II) …

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Fix for: Faking monitor EDID information

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When I used a EDID-blocking VGA KVM switch, I used a small script to fix the resolution after logging in: I think I got the mode line from xrandr somehow (with the monitor plugged in directly). I tried putting it in the X configuration file, but the…

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