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           SPELL=read-edid
         VERSION=3.0.2
          SOURCE="${SPELL}-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://www.polypux.org/projects/${SPELL}/${SOURCE}
     SOURCE_HASH=sha512:779ebe7f1ffb6e7952762b5f886e07974f2c0fe5fa9be0722b928559466b56aae450f741817bb91bb2e33ca66ab27af39cea3c7af220c99b85dae81734138aac
SOURCE_DIRECTORY="${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${SPELL}-${VERSION}"
        WEB_SITE="http://www.polypux.org/projects/read-edid/"
      LICENSE[0]=GPL
         ENTERED=20090904
           SHORT="monitor EDID extractor tool"
cat << EOF
read-edid is a pair of tools (originally by John Fremlin) for reading the EDID
from a monitor. It should work with most monitors made since 1996 (except for
newer ones with 256-byte EDID's - WiP), assuming the video card supports the
standard read commands (most do).read-edid is a set of two tools - get-edid,
which gets the raw edid information from the monitor, and parse-edid, which
turns the raw binary information into an XF86Config-compatible monitor section.

As of read-edid version 2.0.0, the lrmi code has been replaced by libx86 code
- same syntax, but allows for use on many more architectures. For powerpc,
there is a /proc interface, /proc/device-tree/pci/{video-card}/EDID, which
you can pipe to parse-edid. Some architectures, AFAIK, may be stuck with
only parse-edid.
EOF