fred <frederik.vanhee@perso.be> wrote:

|thanks for the information. But what I really wanted to know, was the
|identification of the physical screen. For example HP P1130 or Compaq V500.

|I guess it's not possible, but you never know, because a Windows PC can tell
|you what screen you have connected, but that's because of plug and play...

The more recent Xf86 X server used with the FireGL-UX display card on
PA-RISC and with all display cards on IPF can get monitor information.
On those systems, run
grep 'Monitor name' /var/X11/Xserver/logs/Xf86.0.log

The older systems and graphics cards don't read that information.

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Mike Stroyan, mike.stroyan@hp.com