Dumping EDID in hex...

[Philip Prindeville]

Xavier Bestel wrote:

>Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 21:30 -0600, Philip Prindeville a écrit :
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>>Does anyone have a patch to Xserver/hw/ddc/ to dump (as hex)
>>the returned EDID information into the xorg.0.log file?
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>>The NVidia proprietary drivers did this, which always struck
>>me as a useful feature (especially if you work with a lot of
>>recently released monitors and displays that might not have
>>all the bugs out of their V1.0 EDID information)...
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>>Would be a handy thing to make a permanent part of the ddc/
>>code...
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>>Maybe put it as logging xf86DrvMsg() into xf86PrintEDID().
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>>Any opinions on the idea?
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>Under debian/sid, apt-get read-edid installs get-edid which provides raw
>EDID access, and parse-edid which does something human-readable with
>that.
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Can you point me at the source RPM?  I'll try to build it for FC3.

Thanks,

-Philip