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Vasily Galkin committed Jun 30, 2024
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## edid-rw: A utility to read and write a display EDID value
## edid-checked-writer: A utility to read and write a display EDID value

_Sorry, but I do not support this project anymore. I wrote this utility
for my own one-off personal use many years ago but have no means to test
and support changes nowadays. Feel free to fork and improve it._
This is a fork of Mark Blakeney's https://github.com/bulletmark/edid-rw updated
to perform verification after writing EDID.

The binary name itself kept to be `./edid-rw` for commands compatitbility.

### Overview

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### Installation

Requires python3 smbus module, and edid-decode utility.
Requires python3 smbus module, and edid-decode, i2cdetect utilities.

Install these prerequisites on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python3-smbus edid-decode
sudo apt-get install python3-smbus edid-decode i2c-tools

Or, install these prerequisites on Arch:

yay -S i2c-tools edid-decode-git

Get this source code:

git clone https://github.com/bulletmark/edid-rw
git clone https://github.com/galkinvv/edid-checked-writer
cd edid-rw

This utility should run using Python version 3.2+. It does not work with
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vim -b edid.bin # Then use xxd within vim, see ":h xxd" in vim
sudo ./edid-rw -w 0 <edid.bin

### Author

Mark Blakeney, <mailto:[email protected]>.

### License

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