I am trying to install openSUSE 11.1 on a rather old laptop to make it useful again. I am also getting the:
(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device DFP-0
warning in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. Anytime X starts, via kdm or sax, or whatever, I just get a black screen. I have attempted wiping my xorg.conf file, but I just can’t seem to load X with the nvidia legacy driver. (I have a GeForce4 440 in this old beast).
The nv driver works fine, but with no 3D.
Everywhere I’m googling, it seems I need to try a custom edid file in xorg.conf, except I can’t grab the edid with nvidia-settings, since I can’t get the nvidia driver to load.
Is there another way to grab the edid file from the display on this laptop?
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/local” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/PEX” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/japanese” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/kwintv” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/uni” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/CID” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi” does not exist.
(WW) The directory “/usr/share/fonts/xtest” does not exist.
(WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0’s EDID; cannot compute DPI
(WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-0’s EDID.
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option “CalcAlgorithm” is not used
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option “PreferredMode” is not used
Well, the issue wasn’t the EDID thing. sax2 didn’t correctly set up Xorg to work with the nvidia legacy driver. I had to add:
Option “UseDisplayDevice” “DFP”
under Section “Device”
and then the driver would work. Amazingly enough, I can even get compiz to start and run, despite only having 32 MB of GPU memory. It doesn’t run well, but it will start.