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read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID from a monitor.

read-edid Platforms

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read-edid Overview

read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996 (except for newer ones with 256-byte EDID's - WiP), assuming the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).read-edid is a set of two tools - get-edid, which gets the raw edid information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw binary information into an XF86Config-compatible monitor section.

read-edid Features

tick-square Hardware Monitoring

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