Dumping EDID in hex...

Xavier Bestel xavier.bestel at free.fr
Sat Oct 15 00:24:38 PDT 2005


Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 21:30 -0600, Philip Prindeville a écrit :
> Does anyone have a patch to Xserver/hw/ddc/ to dump (as hex)
> the returned EDID information into the xorg.0.log file?
> 
> The NVidia proprietary drivers did this, which always struck
> me as a useful feature (especially if you work with a lot of
> recently released monitors and displays that might not have
> all the bugs out of their V1.0 EDID information)...
> 
> Would be a handy thing to make a permanent part of the ddc/
> code...
> 
> Maybe put it as logging xf86DrvMsg() into xf86PrintEDID().
> 
> Any opinions on the idea?

Under debian/sid, apt-get read-edid installs get-edid which provides raw
EDID access, and parse-edid which does something human-readable with
that.

	Xav





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