Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:53:01AM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote:
>    So I'm going to hijack this thread a little and ask if anyone can
>    point me to a resource that can tell me (at the lowest level) what
>    I need to interact with (what hardware bus I need to send messages on)
>    to send the request for EDID info to a monitor and get the results
>    so I can decode them.  (I have the message format info, I just don't
>    know where to send/receive the stuff.

/sys/class/drm/*/edid . You really don't want to do i2c from userspace 
if you can possibly avoid it.

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