EDID beta ROM 06Mar17

On a Raspberry Pi Mk3 with today’s, 06Mar17, beta ROM which includes some new EDID components I found that in addition to configuring MonitorType to ‘EDID’, Mode also needed to be ‘Auto’ for the Desktop to start in the monitor’s native resolution.

*st. MonitorType
MonitorType EDID
*st. Mode
Mode       Auto
*

It all works very well here. (And the splash screen is much tidier.)

Many thanks, good bounty.

I have tried the 6Mar2017 rom on my Pi model3, setting MonitorType to EDID and WimpMode to Auto – the splash screen is better but the desktop still starts up in 1024×768. I can’t find how to select ‘EDID’ in the screen configure plug-in – it’s still set to ‘Generic’ and 1024×768. I can select ‘Auto’ instead of ‘Generic’ (not tried it) but not ‘EDID’.

You’ll need to upgrade your boot sequence as well (or at least the screen setup plugin) if you want Configure to support EDID properly.

Am getting various ZeroPain log entries for !Store and !Zap but they still seem to work OK – should I report these here?

MonitorType EDID needs to be configured manually, the new Screen configuration tool, 0.40 (05-Mar-17) does not appear to do this, unless I have missed something. As far as I can see the Screen configuration tool is redundant in EDID mode.

To exit EDID mode simply select an MDF with Screen configuration. To return to using EDID select ‘Auto’ from Screen configuration, there is a horrible screen crash on setting this but a restart does return with EDID in use.

I had missed something, too busy looking for something called “EDID”. An EDID generated entry does appear in the Screen configuration list titled with the Monitor name, e.g. “HP 2229h” here. This is not an MDF but is raw EDID data stored in Resources:$.Resources.ScreenMode.Monitors, filetyped as EDID &f76.

Am getting various ZeroPain log entries for !Store and !Zap but they still seem to work OK – should I report these here?

Theres a page for that which says to email the author first

You’ll need to upgrade your boot sequence as well (or at least the screen setup plugin)

I presume that is Boot:Resources.Configure.ClrMonitor?

I presume that is Boot:Resources.Configure.ClrMonitor?

It is this – !Boot.RO500Hook.Res.Configure.!ScrnSetup

Many thanks. I have uploaded an Update zip to update RC14 to the latest high vector ROM, including the Serial and GPIO modules, as well as EDID support and an updated screen configure plug-in. The configuration settings will need to be changed to *Configure WimpMode Auto and *Configure MonitorType EDID – these will update the file ‘CMOS’ in the FAT partition.