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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-02-05 16:36:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2022-02-09 09:35:10 +0700 |
| commit | a4217c295265342773faa25ca018b9d3ac7eabff (patch) | |
| tree | 3ac33d9ce3af2fd445f8ade34646450bb29d1831 | |
| parent | df87a6b13c16b9d3f2c7ed258eaae653d613c997 (diff) | |
system/read-edid: Fix README.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | system/read-edid/README | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/system/read-edid/README b/system/read-edid/README index d0b7063947138..421c48a98ca13 100644 --- a/system/read-edid/README +++ b/system/read-edid/README @@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since the video card supports the standard read commands (most do). read-edid is a set of two tools: get-edid, which gets the raw edid -information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw binary -information into an xorg.conf-compatible Monitor section. +information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw +binary information into an xorg.conf-compatible Monitor section. Modern Linux kernels also make the EDID data available in -/sys/class/drm/card*-*/edid, so the get-edid command might not be needed. +/sys/class/drm/card*-*/edid, so the get-edid command might not be +needed. See also system/edid-decode, which gives more detail than parse-edid, but doesn't format its output as an xorg.conf-compatible snippet. |