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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor



On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I am trying to setup a dual screen from a laptop with another LCD monitor.
> However, this new monitor came without any manuals, documentation etc., I
> know that it is working but I just dont know the specs. How can I find out
> what its Horizontal frequency and vertical refresh rates etc. are, so that
> I input them into the monitor section of xorg.conf file?
> 
> If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable).
> 
> Any ideas?

try the read-edid package and specifically

get-ided | parse-edid

as root should give some good information. 

Also, if you have any kind of name (which you might get from edid
above) you can google that. There is a wealth of monitor information
on the web...

A

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