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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:40:09 -0700
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Widescreen resolution strangeness with nvidia
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> > How can I see my monitor's actual EDID information?
>
>
> It's in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> View the file and look for the string edid, you'll find lots of info
> that the monitor reports up about itself
I think it's up to the drivers to output EDID information to
Xorg.0.log. When I had my old system (i810) hooked up to this screen,
it dumped a bunch of EDID info to the log, but my new system (nvidia)
doesn't divulge anything at all.
- Grant
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