On 2/5/07, Luca Tettamanti [off-list ref] wrote:

get-edid uses the BIOS, while the other two talk directly over the I2C
bus.

Try loading i2c-dev (I2C_CHARDEV); With i2cdump[1] you can read the EDID
block, which resides at address 0x50:

i2cdump N 0x50 (where N is the bus number)

If you are unshure about bus number try with all the available
/dev/i2c-* devices (you may want to unload HW monitor drivers first, so
you don't poke at random stuff).

No luck. i2c-dev and dependencies are loaded
""" lsmod | grep i2c reports """
i2c_i801                7404  0
i2c_isa                 5152  0
i2c_piix4               8140  0
i2c_algo_pcf            6180  0
i2c_algo_pca            5380  0
i2c_algo_bit            8424  0
i2c_dev                 8548  0
i2c_core               19680  7
i2c_i801,i2c_isa,i2c_piix4,i2c_algo_pcf,i2c_algo_pca,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_dev
""""

There is no such thing as /dev/i2c* UNLESS I load nvidiafb. When I
load that, I get three busses (i2c-0, -1, and -2), but i2cdump N 0x50
gives me a nice tableau of X's all around, for all values of N. This
is using kernel 2.6.18-3 stock Debian kernel. I'll keep trying with
some variations, to see if I can get more sensible information.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta