On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Xi Shen <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
>
> my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my
> monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in
> 32bit env.
>
> do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.?
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> David Shen
>
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>
I use read-edid-2.0 on AMD64 and it seems to work for me.
firefly ~ # get-edid | parse-edid
parse-edid: parse-edid version 2.0.0
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
VBE version 300
VBE string at 0x11100 "Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset
Accelerated VGA BIOS"
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
Reading next EDID block
VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful
parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.
# EDID version 1 revision 3
Section "Monitor"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fd
# Block type: 2:0 3:fc
Identifier "SyncMaster"
VendorName "SAM"
ModelName "SyncMaster"
# Block type: 2:0 3:fd
HorizSync 30-81
VertRefresh 56-75
# Max dot clock (video bandwidth) 140 MHz
# Block type: 2:0 3:fc
# Block type: 2:0 3:ff
# DPMS capabilities: Active off:yes Suspend:yes Standby:yes
Mode "1280x1024" # vfreq 60.020Hz, hfreq 63.981kHz
DotClock 108.000000
HTimings 1280 1328 1440 1688
VTimings 1024 1025 1028 1066
Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
EndMode
# Block type: 2:0 3:fd
# Block type: 2:0 3:fc
# Block type: 2:0 3:ff
EndSection
firefly ~ #
