From a4217c295265342773faa25ca018b9d3ac7eabff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "B. Watson" Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2022 16:36:06 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] system/read-edid: Fix README. Signed-off-by: B. Watson Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo --- system/read-edid/README | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/system/read-edid/README b/system/read-edid/README index d0b7063947..421c48a98c 100644 --- a/system/read-edid/README +++ b/system/read-edid/README @@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ the EDID from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since the video card supports the standard read commands (most do). read-edid is a set of two tools: get-edid, which gets the raw edid -information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw binary -information into an xorg.conf-compatible Monitor section. +information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which turns the raw +binary information into an xorg.conf-compatible Monitor section. Modern Linux kernels also make the EDID data available in -/sys/class/drm/card*-*/edid, so the get-edid command might not be needed. +/sys/class/drm/card*-*/edid, so the get-edid command might not be +needed. See also system/edid-decode, which gives more detail than parse-edid, but doesn't format its output as an xorg.conf-compatible snippet.