Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:14:22 -0400 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: get monitor EDID without using X? Message-ID: <20021015121422.B293@numachi.com>
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For academic reasons, I was poking around with the idea of getting information about my monitor (vendor, capabilites, etc.) and it looks like the magic buzzords for doing do (with compliant hardware) is via DDC (or is it EDID?) info. Current versions of XFree86 can do it on my hardware; I wanted to try to gather similar information without the overhead of an X distribution. I did find a Linux program: http://ape.n3.net/programs/linux/read-edid Which I was able to build via the linux_developer toolset under 4.5-RELEASE. But, the resulting executable yeilded the following diagnostic: Oct 14 21:00:08 natto /kernel: linux: syscall vm86old is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=97407) Is there a FreeBSD-sanctioned way of getting this data? (Maybe via the VESA kernel module?) Would a newer version of FreeBSD's linux_developer toolset possibly build a working executable? Just fishing; I'm still doing research, and there seems to be several avenues... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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