From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:52:42 -0400 From: sl@9front.org To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <5e318d6638d33dad5d52790043cf25c7@pi.att> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: d94309da-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> In my experience a VESA BIOS will sometimes report >> different available modes depending on the detected >> EDID. > > I have no problem believing this is true, but I'm also sure > there's more to it than that. I agree. One problem is that these things are all different, almost completely undocumented, and implement non-standard modes seemingly at random. Some people involved with various OSX86[0] efforts have developed methods for probing (and in some cases, modifiying) the VESA BIOS on some cards. All kinds of strange behaviors have been observed. > I'd be interested in a survey with broader results > than just dueling anecdotes I haven't made any attempt to catalogue VESA vs EDID discrepancies, but I do keep a small archive of hardware info here: http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/hardware We try to collect the sysinfo[1] output for as many systems as possible, for later reference. sl [0] http://www.osx86project.org [1] http://man.aiju.de/1/sysinfo