Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Xi Shen
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Neil Walker wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no >> mention of stable or testing builds. > > It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said. > > Remember, some people are very unc

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: > I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no > mention of stable or testing builds. It might have been what you were thinking but it wasn't what you said. Remember, some people are very uncomfortable with testing ebuilds. Be lucky, Neil http://www.ne

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:58:21 +, Neil Walker wrote: > The stable version (keyworded amd64, as you said) does not install > get-edid. Try reading the Changelog. I was referring to amd64 in general, as opposed to x86; I made no mention of stable or testing builds. And the OP said that it read-ed

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Beau Henderson
Neil Walker wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. get-edid is not

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: > % emerge --info > Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, > 2.6.32-gentoo-r2 x86_64) > > % qlist read-edid > /usr/share/man/man1/get-edid.1.bz2 > /usr/share/man/man1/parse-edid.1.bz2 > /usr/share/doc/read-edid-2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:16:56 +, Neil Walker wrote: > > What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded > > and works fine here. > get-edid is not installed on non-x86 platforms, only parse-edid. % emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc61 (default/linux/amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: >> my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my >> monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in >> 32bit env. >> > > What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and > works fine here. > get-edid is not ins

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:12:34 +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my > monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in > 32bit env. What makes you think that? The read-edid package is amd64 keyworded and works fine here. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 27 Januar 2010, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my > monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in > 32bit env. > > do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.? lm_sensors-2.XY ---> decod

[gentoo-user] how to get edid info. for monitors in gentoo amd64

2010-01-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64. i want to get the edid info. for my monitor. the read-edid package would do this, but it only works in 32bit env. do we have a alternative way to get the edid info. in a 64bit env.? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/ http://meme.yahoo.co