From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 15 9:14:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B584937B401 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from natto.numachi.com (natto.numachi.com [198.175.254.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8011F43E88 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 47113 invoked by uid 1001); 15 Oct 2002 16:14:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 12:14:22 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: get monitor EDID without using X? Message-ID: <20021015121422.B293@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For academic reasons, I was poking around with the idea of getting information about my monitor (vendor, capabilites, etc.) and it looks like the magic buzzords for doing do (with compliant hardware) is via DDC (or is it EDID?) info. Current versions of XFree86 can do it on my hardware; I wanted to try to gather similar information without the overhead of an X distribution. I did find a Linux program: http://ape.n3.net/programs/linux/read-edid Which I was able to build via the linux_developer toolset under 4.5-RELEASE. But, the resulting executable yeilded the following diagnostic: Oct 14 21:00:08 natto /kernel: linux: syscall vm86old is obsoleted or not implemented (pid=97407) Is there a FreeBSD-sanctioned way of getting this data? (Maybe via the VESA kernel module?) Would a newer version of FreeBSD's linux_developer toolset possibly build a working executable? Just fishing; I'm still doing research, and there seems to be several avenues... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message