EDID on openSUSE 13.2

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is there a way to display EDID on opensuse 13.2? I cant seem to find it anywhere.

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Hi
I have packaged up read-edid; read-edid

Available from here, just drill down to either i586 or x86_64 and download the read-edid rpm and install.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/malcolmlewis:/Miscellanous/openSUSE_13.2

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downloaded it and went to install and got…

error: Failed dependencies:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by read-edid-3.0.2-1.1.i586
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by read-edid-3.0.2-1.1.i586
libx86.so.1 is needed by read-edid-3.0.2-1.1.i586

any ideas on how to get them install really quick?

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Hi
If you use zypper it should pull it in from the standard install medium/repo;


zypper in read-edid-3.0.2-1.1.i586.rpm
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when i try installing with zypper it tells me its not available. and fails the installation so i tried with rpm -ivh

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linux:/home/eclipse # zypper in read-edid-3.0.2-1.1.i586.rpm
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘tmpRPMcache:read-edid=0:3.0.2-1.1’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘tmpRPMcache:read-edid=0:3.0.2-1.1’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…

Nothing to do.
linux:/home/eclipse #

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Hi
You have to be in the directory where the rpm exists or use the full path to it.

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yes its in the folder that im trying to use it from. when i hit LL its sitting right there :slight_smile:

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Hi
Down in /var/cache/zypp or zypper there maybe that folder tmpRPMcache delete it and try again, but also lets force a refresh;


zypper ref -f
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cleared the cache, and retried it, same thing, it wont install locally. this is so annoying. is there a way to get a RPM file with the 3 files its missing that i can install, or is there a repository that has it that i can install from? Im at my wits end with this stupid setup already.

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Hi
Just install libx86 via zypper, or is it still playing up?

What repos are active?


zypper lr

If there is a tmp one remove it with zypper rr <tmp_repo_number>

If you have the default repos active, then it should install, else off the install medium.

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im using the default ones that came with the jetson tk1 opensuse port installation, ( for the repos), and when i try to install that it tells me its not available, is there another repo i can use?

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Ahhhh, arm build, the rpm is for normal hardware not arm… so it won’t work.

Can you get the EDID info via xrandr, I would start a new thread with hardware and monitor info (and that it’s an arm7hl system). There are folks that should be able to sort out your xorg issue.

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not really, the xrndrx thing just says no monitor. its so weird. I need something that works for ARM, the bottom line issue is i cant get a GUI to load on this machine, it works with ubuntu, but i cant stand that, i love openSUSE, and im using the arm 13.2 version, the text based system works amazing, but i cant seem to get a GUI working.

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Hi
Have you followed the guide here;
http://elinux.org/Jetson/Porting_openSUSE

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followed it to the letter, and the GUI doesnt load. thats the problem

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Hi
OK, what I suggest is a new thread to grab some more attention with folks up to speed with Xorg configuration, something like ‘X not starting - Jetson/Nvidia Tegra [arm7hl]’.

When it boots, do you see grub and can add the nomodeset option?