Much of that info is available through DDC. For the most part, monitor EDID information is acquired through DDC via the chip's I2C port. In general, I2C access is proprietary to the video chip, but there may be some VESA services exporting that. Whether there are utilities that do that outside of XFree86, I don't know. You might look at some of the X configuration utilities that come with some of the Linux distributions. Mark. On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Thibault Ketterer wrote: > Helo, > I am trying to detect wether a screen is plugged or not, and what is it's > type, name, vendor etc.. > > I know 'xfree86 -configure' could do that but I only need the detection > part.. > > Futhermore, someone has said to me that it was also possible to control the > power on/off of the screen via dvi port.. > > could anyone helps ? > > Tahks, tk > > tk@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
