Comment 9 for bug 539730

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

This is ssh'd in while the corruption is on screen - not sure if that's right or not

root@mario:~# DISPLAY=:0 get-edid | parse-edid
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
 Function supported
 Call successful

 VBE version 300
 VBE string at 0x2110 "NVIDIA"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
 Report DDC capabilities

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
 Function supported
 Call successful

 Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
 Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
 0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
 Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
 Read EDID

 Performing real mode VBE call
 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
 Function supported
 Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
parse-edid: IO error reading EDID