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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:45:39
Message-Id: 49bf44f10610030840h27fb8a1fo7584bd9a51b12d6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia by Alan McKinnon
1 > > How can I see my monitor's actual EDID information?
2 >
3 >
4 > It's in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
5 > View the file and look for the string edid, you'll find lots of info
6 > that the monitor reports up about itself
7
8 I think it's up to the drivers to output EDID information to
9 Xorg.0.log. When I had my old system (i810) hooked up to this screen,
10 it dumped a bunch of EDID info to the log, but my new system (nvidia)
11 doesn't divulge anything at all.
12
13 - Grant
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