Comment 43 for bug 712075

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote : Re: [Bug 712075] Re: [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:31:17AM -0000, gtdaqua wrote:
> So, is there a status update on this? 8 more days for Final Release and
> the display is broken!

No one has been able to identify the root cause of this, but adding the
following line to /etc/rc.local works around it for me:

# Disable monitor hotplug polling (https://launchpad.net/bugs/712075)
echo 0 > /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team