NVIDIA EDID Clone and Force Linux

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I had a long VGA cable (not shielded) and it was not pulling EDID data from the monitor. Instead of writing a xorg.conf I just wanted to clone the EDID data and force the nvidia driver to use it. If you go into the NVIDIA X Server Settings Util you should be able to aquire the EDID and save it by selecting the monitor and clicking the Aquire EDID data button. I did not have luck with the read-edid stuff but I am sure with a bit of messing around I would have gotten some command line util to work.

Now that I have my edid.bin file I created a dir /etc/X11/edid and renamed my file to dell_2007FPb_edid.bin and create a file called custom_edid_VGA-0.conf under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d with this: 

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    Option "CustomEDID" "VGA-0:/etc/X11/edid/dell_2007FPb_edid.bin"
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