From kde-devel  Mon Nov 01 08:53:40 2004
From: Daniel Roe <daniel.roe () balliol-oxford ! com>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:53:40 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE tests report (now all of KDE)
Message-Id: <200411010853.40774.daniel.roe () balliol-oxford ! com>
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On Monday 01 November 2004 05:24, Gary L. Greene Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 02:30 pm, Marcos Dione wrote:
> > # get-edid | parse-edid
>
> these commands do not exist under X.org or XFree86 from what I see. Nor are
> they standard on most Linuxs. The information that X.org returns is
> *probed* not preconfigured, since modelines are now ignored by the server.

Xorg includes the functionality for the programs on some video cards. But not 
all, sadly. If you want to test the programs for yourself, check out this 
website:

 http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/

Obviously these packages are not standard. But debian offers dpkgs and there 
are rpms available. Gentoo also provides ebuilds.

Admittedly adding a dependency for read-edid would be going too far.

regards,
Daniel
 
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