Obtaining a Monitors Serial Number (EDID)

piercey · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 182

Hey guys,

Not sure if this is the best place for this thread seems to be the most fitting. I'm looking for a program to obtain an attached monitors serial number. The monitors are attached to some embedded devices and there's no X environment running, only framebuffer. Apparently this information should be obtained from the EDID of the monitor. So I got a program called "read-edid", but its output was kind of garbled and didn't return anything of use (except that DDC2 was supported). I also found another program, ddccontrol, which won't run on the device because it only compiles and runs on machines with a newer GLIBC (the embedded device is old, 2.2 GLIBC - and i didnt notice any particular reasons why it wouldnt compile, just obscure errors).

So I'm hoping someone might know a way I could get this information. Any help is appreciated,

thanks.
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genterminl · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:09 pm Post subject:

Two thoughts. First, could you compile ddccontrol on a newer machine (static) and then copy the executable to the embedded device?

Second, have you tried sending the output of read-edid to the developer of that app? He may be able to decipher it (per the comments on his web page as listed in the ebuild.)