EDID data source

[oldone1]

I do not know if this will be of interest to the winbatch community.  While investigating screen resolution, I came across the command utility DUMPEDID.  I was able to use this utility within a winbatch script to create a text file that contained information regarding resolutions supported by my monitor.  It also contained data regarding the monitor itself.  Since one of the pieces of data was a registry key, I believe this information is being retrieved from the registry.  This text file contains 2 sets of information.  I believe this is because my video card has 2 display adapters.

Sample text follows...

DumpEDID v1.01

Copyright (c) 2006 Nir Sofer

Web site: http://www.nirsoft.net



*****************************************************************

Registry Key             : DISPLAY\DEL4005\5&197e6c17&0&10000084&01&00

Monitor Name             : DELL 1704FPT

Serial Number            : Y42995AJCBMR

Manufacture Week         : 43 / 2005

ManufacturerID           : 44048 (0xAC10)

ProductID                : 16389 (0x4005)

Serial Number (Numeric)  : 1128418642 (0x43424D52)

EDID Version             : 1.3

Display Gamma            : 2.20

Vertical Frequency       : 56 - 76 Hz

Horizontal Frequency     : 30 - 81 KHz

Image Size               : 33.8 X 27.0 cm (17.0 Inch)

Maximum Image Size       : 34 X 27 cm (17.1 Inch)

Maximum Resolution       : 1280 X 1024

Support Standby Mode     : Yes

Support Suspend Mode     : Yes

Support Low-Power Mode   : Yes

Support Default GTF      : No

Digital                  : Yes



Supported Display Modes  :

     720 X  400  70 Hz

     640 X  480  60 Hz

     640 X  480  75 Hz

     800 X  600  60 Hz

     800 X  600  75 Hz

    1024 X  768  60 Hz

    1024 X  768  75 Hz

    1280 X 1024  75 Hz

    1152 X  864  75 Hz

    1280 X 1024  60 Hz



*****************************************************************



*****************************************************************

Registry Key             : DISPLAY\DEL4005\5&618e1e9&0&10000084&01&00

Monitor Name             : DELL 1704FPT

Serial Number            : Y42995AJCBMR

Manufacture Week         : 43 / 2005

ManufacturerID           : 44048 (0xAC10)

ProductID                : 16389 (0x4005)

Serial Number (Numeric)  : 1128418642 (0x43424D52)

EDID Version             : 1.3

Display Gamma            : 2.20

Vertical Frequency       : 56 - 76 Hz

Horizontal Frequency     : 30 - 81 KHz

Image Size               : 33.8 X 27.0 cm (17.0 Inch)

Maximum Image Size       : 34 X 27 cm (17.1 Inch)

Maximum Resolution       : 1280 X 1024

Support Standby Mode     : Yes

Support Suspend Mode     : Yes

Support Low-Power Mode   : Yes

Support Default GTF      : No

Digital                  : Yes



Supported Display Modes  :

     720 X  400  70 Hz

     640 X  480  60 Hz

     640 X  480  75 Hz

     800 X  600  60 Hz

     800 X  600  75 Hz

    1024 X  768  60 Hz

    1024 X  768  75 Hz

    1280 X 1024  75 Hz

    1152 X  864  75 Hz

    1280 X 1024  60 Hz



*****************************************************************






I think that a winbatch script could be created that reads this file to display this data and maybe process the resolution data to display allowable resolutions for this monitor(this text file does not contain color depth).


The following is a 2 line example of executing this command line utility to create the above text file.

  coms = Environment("COMSPEC")
   RunWait(coms, "/c c:\dummy1\dispedid\dumpedid.exe >monitor.txt")