read-edid Alternatives

Apps similar to read-edid include hwinfo, which is free and open source. Other options are Dmidecode, Glxinfo, cpuid and vbetool. In total there are seven System Information Utilities like read-edid for Linux and Windows.

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  1. hwinfo icon
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    hwinfo/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support.

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    Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well as a lot of other details of...

    15 Dmidecode alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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  3. Glxinfo icon
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    glxinfo is a command-line tool that can help you diagnose problems with your 3D acceleration setup. It can also provide additional helpful information for developers.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  4.  4 likes

    cpuid dumps detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU(s).

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    vbetool is a small application that executes code from the BIOS of your video card. This is mostly useful for reinitialising the hardware, for instance after ACPI suspend/resuming.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    Yacpi is an acpi monitoring program for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status and ac status on notebooks. The main reason why i wrote this program is, because i don't like the acpi program, which is included in debian :) It displays things like...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  7. driconf icon
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    DRIconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure. It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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