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Re: EDID from multiple displays using ioctl(WSDISPLAYIO_GET_EDID)



rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost (RVP) writes:

>Is there a way to retrieve EDID data from displays other than
>the default one using ioctl(WSDISPLAYIO_GET_EDID) ?

>On my Asus X202E laptop with 3 physical outputs (LVDS, VGA, HDMI)
>the ioctl gets the EDID only of the LVDS panel. This is for
>situations where X is not running/can't run and xrandr unavailable.

The console only handles one display and that gets queried with
WSDISPLAYIO_GET_EDID.

If you had multiple wsdisplay* instances, there would be some
corresponding ttyE* that you could send the ioctl to.

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