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Package: read-edid (2.0.0-3.1)

hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors

read-edid consists of two tools:

get-edid uses a VESA VBE 2 interrupt service routine request to read a 128 byte EDID version 1 structure from your graphics card, which retrieves this information from the monitor via the Data Display Channel (DDC).

get-edid uses architecture-specific methods for querying the video hardware (real-mode x86 instructions on i386, Open Firmware device tree parsing on PowerMac) and is therefore only available for i386 and powerpc architectures.

parse-edid parses this data structure and outputs data suitable for inclusion into the XFree86 or X.org configuration file. It is available for any architecture.

Tags: System Administration: Hardware Support, Hardware Enablement: Hardware Detection, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility

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    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2) [hppa, mips, mipsel]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2.5) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.2) [ia64]
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  • dep: libx86-1 (>= 0.99-1) [amd64, i386]
    x86 real-mode library

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 12.6 kB76 kB [list of files]
armel 10.1 kB64 kB [list of files]
hppa 9.7 kB60 kB [list of files]
i386 11.8 kB72 kB [list of files]
ia64 11.1 kB68 kB [list of files]
mips 9.4 kB64 kB [list of files]
mipsel 9.4 kB64 kB [list of files]
powerpc 10.2 kB68 kB [list of files]
s390 9.4 kB60 kB [list of files]
sparc 8.9 kB60 kB [list of files]