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  1. Bug #180601
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 180601

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: Incomplete monitor specification data for Sony CPD-E200 due to KVM switch interfering with EDID data collection

FactTech,

Well, the fact that KVM's sometimes squelch EDID has been a well known issue for a long long time. As you mentioned, there is no known solution that can be applied automatically. So for this particular issue I believe we're at a dead end.

However, for this use case, others have proposed that a solution would be to provide a manual configuration GUI such as we used to in Gutsy (displayconfig-gtk, which unfortunately became obsolete once X moved to xrandr). Do you agree that this would be an acceptable resolution for this particular problem? If so, then I'd suggest we dupe this bug to that master bug, bug #240916. Let me know if you agree; if not, explain what other resolution you'd like to see.