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Toshiba Black Bar and Linux


OPaul

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Is there a fix for the Toshiba Black Bar Issue for Linux? Besides running older drivers. Unfortunately I can't get the old ones to work with my kernel.

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I don't know anything down the Linux line of modifying. I'd imagine it just involves converting the black bar line to valid display timings. I'll look around.

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Cool thanks. Right now I'm stuck using the OpenSource nv driver which doesn't support 3d acceleration or full screen movies.

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Which display size do you have?

My Notes: :)

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...appendix-i.html

SoftEDIDs

# -- 1400x1050 --
# 1400x1050 @ 60Hz, 65.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050"  129  1400 1464 1656 1960
[tab][/tab]   1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...appendix-d.html

UseEdidFreqs - true

IgnoreEDID - true

Also, I saw this thread on the matter for Linux: NvNews Thread

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Which display size do you have?

My Notes: :)

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...appendix-i.html

SoftEDIDs

# -- 1400x1050 --
# 1400x1050 @ 60Hz, 65.8 kHz hsync
Modeline "1400x1050"  129  1400 1464 1656 1960
[tab][/tab]   1050 1051 1054 1100 +HSync +VSync

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...appendix-d.html

UseEdidFreqs - true

IgnoreEDID - true

Also, I saw this thread on the matter for Linux: NvNews Thread

I have the 15" LCD @ 1024x768. Shouldn't UseEdidFreqs be false so as to NOT use the information provided by the BIOS?

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Problem Solved

I added the IgnoreEDID option and then set the HorizSync value to "28.0 - 80.0". Now the display takes up the full screen. But I actually got these values from someone else, so are they correct for my screen? I don't want the values to be hurting the LCD or anything.

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Great Paul!

As I said I'm not Linux savvy and I'd gather "HorizSync" is a freq of ~48kHz for 1024x768. So I'm not sure why the range of values 28-80 :)

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