read-edid Alternatives
read-edid is described as '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)' and is an app in the System & Hardware category. There are seven alternatives to read-edid for Linux and Windows. The best alternative is hwinfo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like read-edid are cpuid (Free, Open Source), Dmidecode (Free, Open Source), vbetool (Free, Open Source) and yacpi (Free, Open Source).
- 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.
- cpuid dumps detailed information about the CPU(s) gathered from the CPUID instruction, and also determines the exact model of CPU(s).
- Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.No screenshots yet
- 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.No screenshots yet
- Yacpi is an acpi monitoring program for Linux. It displays various acpi information like battery status and ac status on notebooks.
- 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.
- 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.