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read-edid (read EDID information from a video monitor)
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read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading
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the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since
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1996 (except for some newer ones with 256-byte EDIDs - WiP), assuming
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the video card supports the standard read commands (most do).
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read-edid is a set of two tools: get-edid, which gets the raw edid
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information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw
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binary information into an xorg.conf-compatible Monitor section.
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Modern Linux kernels also make the EDID data available in
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/sys/class/drm/card*-*/edid, so the get-edid command might not be
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needed.
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See also system/edid-decode, which gives more detail than parse-edid,
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but doesn't format its output as an xorg.conf-compatible snippet.
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