| edid-decode(1) | General Commands Manual | edid-decode(1) |
NAME¶
edid-decode - Decode EDID data in human-readable formatSYNOPSIS¶
edid-decode <options> [in [out]]DESCRIPTION¶
edid-decode decodes EDID monitor description data in human-readable format. If [in] is not given, or [in] is '-', then the EDID will be read from standard input. If [out] is given then the EDID that was read from [in] is written to [out] or to standard output if [out] is '-'. By default the output is written as a hex dump when writing to standard output or a raw EDID if written to a file.Input files may be raw binaries or ASCII text. ASCII input is scanned for hex dumps; heuristics are included to search for hexdumps in xrandr(1) property output and Xorg(1) log file formats, otherwise the data is treated as a raw hexdump. EDID blocks for connected monitors can be found in /sys/class/drm/*/edid on modern Linux systems with kernel modesetting support.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- Prints the help message.
- -o, --output-format=<fmt>
- If [out] is specified, then write the EDID in format <fmt>.
The output format can be one of:
hex: hex numbers in ascii text (default for stdout)
raw: binary data (default unless writing to stdout)
carray: c-program struct - -c, --check
- Check if the EDID conforms to the standards.
- -e, --extract
- Extract the contents of the first block in hex values. This was always done in old edid-decode versions. To get the same behavior add this option.