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Bug 660572 - color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output
color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: plugins
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-30 16:05 UTC by dirk.seynol
Modified: 2017-09-29 15:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description dirk.seynol 2011-09-30 16:05:20 UTC 
get logged after cold boot on Oneiric i386 b2

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/863359
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2012-03-16 10:14:14 UTC 
commit 46e5d828e1e8252a147bd49a0164eace622d22e7
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 15 10:32:29 2012 +0000

    color: Create a color device even if the device has an invalid EDID
    
    A lot of laptops have invalid EDIDs, but it doesn't matter as we prefer the
    DMI data anyway.

:100644 100644 ad2b8c1... f424813... M  plugins/color/gsd-color-manager.c

commit 090a145236e9c73af1f8c79dce75daebf3d63f9c
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 15 10:31:40 2012 +0000

    color: Apply the color profile even if the device has an invalid EDID
    
    It appears quite a lot of real-world hardware returns bad EDID data.

:100644 100644 5377220... ad2b8c1... M  plugins/color/gsd-color-manager.c