Monitor Detection via DDC

[Bill Nottingham]

Martin Owens (doctormo at gmail.com) said: 
> Is there a way I can access this information from X through HAL or some
> other nice interface? I've not seen anything like that.

Not specifically. If you're *in* X, X may put the EDID as a root
window property.

> Your thinking that the only reason for detection would be to configure X,
> which in this case it's not.

OK then. It's still really messy, as you need to either run real-mode
code, or run a x86 emulator. Moreover, many modern displays don't
support being probed in this manner.

Bill