Edid information

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Is there any way to get the Serial ID of the connected monitor ?

I want to gather the Edid information of the monitor. I can get it from xorg.0.log file when I run the X with -logverbose option.

But the problem is that If I switch the monitor ( plug-out the current monitor and then plug-in another monitor ), then there is no way to get this information.

Is there any way to get the EDID dynamically ( or runtime ) ? Or any utility/tool which will inform me as soon as monitor is connected and disconnected ?

I am using the LFS-6.4.

Regards, SHW

Answer 1

There is this read-edid package. http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/

Once you have it compiled and installed, you can run these commands:

# read-edid | parse-edid

This will provide you with an X.org config-like output. Feel free to hack further.