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Re^4: How do I find my monitor type and model?by thunders (Priest) |
on Jul 07, 2010 at 18:36 UTC ( [id://848521]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I'm running Ubuntu and Gnome, but this should be generally relevant to any system using X11. I had a look at the source of the Gnome tools that read monitor information. They all use the X RandR (Resize and Rotate) library under the hood to gather monitor information The xrandr command line tool shows the raw data provided by your monitor
The EDID_DATA is particularly relevant to us. The read-edid project has utilities that turn the EDID information into something we can use:
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