Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:01:32
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1001270610s3ba9bea9if24bc39529aa6ab4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64 by Xi Shen
1 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my
5 > monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in
6 > 32bit env.
7 >
8 > do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.?
9 >
10 >
11 > --
12 > Best Regards,
13 > David Shen
14 >
15 > http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
16 > http://meme.yahoo.com/davidshen84/
17 >
18
19 I use read-edid-2.0 on AMD64 and it seems to work for me.
20
21 firefly ~ # get-edid | parse-edid
22 parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
23 get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
24
25 Performing real mode VBE call
26 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
27 Function supported
28 Call successful
29
30 VBE version 300
31 VBE string at 0x11100 "Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset
32 Accelerated VGA BIOS"
33
34 VBE/DDC service about to be called
35 Report DDC capabilities
36
37 Performing real mode VBE call
38 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
39 Function supported
40 Call successful
41
42 Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
43 Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
44 0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
45 Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
46
47 Reading next EDID block
48
49 VBE/DDC service about to be called
50 Read EDID
51
52 Performing real mode VBE call
53 Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
54 Function supported
55 Call successful
56
57 parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.
58
59 # EDID version 1 revision 3
60 Section "Monitor"
61 # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
62 # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
63 Identifier "SyncMaster"
64 VendorName "SAM"
65 ModelName "SyncMaster"
66 # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
67 HorizSync 30-81
68 VertRefresh 56-75
69 # Max dot clock (video bandwidth) 140 MHz
70 # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
71 # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
72 # DPMS capabilities: Active off:yes Suspend:yes Standby:yes
73
74 Mode "1280x1024" # vfreq 60.020Hz, hfreq 63.981kHz
75 DotClock 108.000000
76 HTimings 1280 1328 1440 1688
77 VTimings 1024 1025 1028 1066
78 Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
79 EndMode
80 # Block type: 2:0 3:fd
81 # Block type: 2:0 3:fc
82 # Block type: 2:0 3:ff
83 EndSection
84 firefly ~ #