Bug 157414
| Summary: | wrong serial number for digital displays in Xorg.0.log | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Herbert Gasiorowski <gasi> |
| Component: | xorg-x11 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-05-13 21:17:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Herbert Gasiorowski
2005-05-11 14:17:22 UTC
The monitor serial number is not used for anything at all. It's just
a cosmetic number. This is very highly likely to be a flaw in the monitor
itself and not a software bug. There are a lot of Sony monitors out there
that are known to provide flaky EDID data. Every monitor model is supposed
to have it's own unique EDID, however there are a lot of Sony monitors
that they did not change the ID on. There's a block of them that all
claim to be SNY0000 or SNY0001 or something similar (I don't remember
the exact code, but it's in MonitorsDb IIRC).
So this is 99% unlikely to be a bug in the X server or video driver, and
much more likely to be a flaw in the monitor itself. If someone cares
enough to debug this far enough (which would require having the actual
monitor it occurs on), and can determine that it is really an X bug,
they should file a bug report in X.org bugzilla at:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component
It's not something worth wasting our time on however, as the serial
number isn't actually used for anything as I've indicated above.
Setting status to "NOTABUG".
I assume it ist 89% likely to be a bug: 1. It works with nearly all monitors when they where connected to the analog port. 2. it is very unlikely that different monitors give the same number as a search of google will show "Manufacturer 16843009" 3. They all return the correct Model: SNY0490,SNY1690,... And I like the reported serial number, as I they allows a correct inventory for all the monitors I am resposable for. But, ok, severity is shurely low, and maybe someday I have the time to trace the code - maybe next year ... If you are convinced it is a bug, report it to X.org bugzilla as suggested in comment #1. It is a cosmetic very low priority issue at best. If it is determined by X.Org developers to be a real bug after you report it there, and if they fix it, we will review any patches someone points out and consider them for future updates. Changing status to "WONTFIX", because if this really is a bug, we're not going to dedicate resources to a minor cosmetic issue of this nature. After reading the specs and the code I have to admit that the version 1.3 will no longer use this location for serial number. It is writen some bytes later and Xorg will show it some lines below. It is all correct and works fine with all monitors. |