John Lange wrote:
I know someone mentioned this at a distant past MUUG meeting; what is the command line tool that will query the attached monitor for its settings? I believe this is called DDC?
If you're looking for the low level bit, I think read-edid is what you're looking for.
However, if you're on a modern xorg based distro, xrandr is a good one:
oin$ xrandr -q SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh *0 1280 x 1024 ( 342mm x 271mm ) *75 60 1 1024 x 768 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 70 60 2 832 x 624 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 3 800 x 600 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 72 60 56 4 640 x 480 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 73 60 5 1280 x 960 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 60 6 1280 x 800 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 60 7 1152 x 864 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 8 1280 x 768 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 60 9 1152 x 768 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 55 10 416 x 312 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 11 400 x 300 ( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 72 60 Current rotation - normal Current reflection - none Rotations possible - normal Reflections possible - none
xrandr will allow you to do all sorts of cool things. If it's an intel chipset, you can switch monitors, etc etc etc.
Scott