parse-edid

hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/parse-edid.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install read-edid
Ubuntu
apt-get install read-edid
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S read-edid
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install read-edid
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install read-edid
Raspbian
apt-get install read-edid
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/parse-edid

read-edid

hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors

read-edid consists of two tools: get-edid uses a VESA VBE 2 interrupt service routine request to read a 128 byte EDID version 1 structure from your graphics card, which retrieves this information from the monitor via the Data Display Channel (DDC). get-edid uses architecture-specific methods for querying the video hardware (real-mode x86 instructions on i386, Open Firmware device tree parsing on PowerMac) and is therefore only available for i386 and powerpc architectures. parse-edid parses this data structure and outputs data suitable for inclusion into the XFree86 or X.org configuration file. It is available for any architecture.