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So I'm trying to find an API or a system call that will let me know if the display is digital or not (byte 20, bit 7 in EDID). Has ...
  1. 06-23-2009 #1
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    How get info about your display if it is digital or analog?

    So I'm trying to find an API or a system call that will let me know if the display is digital or not (byte 20, bit 7 in EDID). Has anyone tried this? Here's what I've looked at:

    1. xrandr --verbose == tells me a lot about the display, but nothing about digital or not.

    2. read-edid/ parse-edid == what I'm looking for, but requires root privileges. I might be able to dig in there and just try to extract what I need without root.

    3. parse /var/log/Xorg.0.log == spits out the EDID in hex, but not standardized. ATI differs from NV.
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    Don't know about programmatically, but if you are using a VGA port or DVI->VGA adapter, it is analog, and if a DVI or HDMI port direct to the display, it is digital.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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    Are there logs (consistent between different graphics cards) or system calls to let us know if it detected the different ports (VGA,DVI,HDMI)?
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    Consistent logs? It would be nice!
    I looked at my nvidia installation log in /var/log and found nothing about the display types it found. It did use ACPI to determine the interrupt to use for the card.
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