vbe-edid

[Kai-Uwe Behrmann]

Am 16.10.10, 17:48 +0200 schrieb Luc Verhaegen:
> When looking into #24348 i dug out the read-edid code to see what i
> needed to do to separately test the failing 0x4F01 call on vbe with
> vm86.
>
> I ended up rewriting the get-edid tool completely, it is tiny and its
> functionality is trivial anyway, and now we have:
> * actual readable C code, MIT license.
> * useful verbosity.
> * dumping of only the main edid block to mmm-dddd.edid (just 128bytes as
> i am too lazy to do things properly).
>
> So, vbe-edid is available here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~libv/vbe-edid

Error: iopl failed: Operation not permitted

It seems to need privileged rights.

As root:
Found VBE Version 3.0.
VBE Call 0x15 failed!

What are the requirements to run vbe-edid successfully?


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
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