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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2014-10-31 08:54:35 (EDT)
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Or look in <b>/sys/class/drm/card0-LVDS-1/edid</b>
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<p>
+ Alternatively you can use i2cdump. In Trisquel, this is in the package i2c-tools.<br/>
+ $ <b>sudo modprobe i2c-dev</b><br/>
+ $ <b>sudo i2cdump -y 5 0x50</b><br/>
+ $ <b>sudo rmmod i2c-dev</b><br/>
+ You'll see the panel name in the output (from the EDID dump).
+ </p>
+ <p>
If neither of these options work (or they are unavailable), physically removing the LCD panel is an option.
Usually, there will be information printed on the back.
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