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Hi all, not sure where to put this post, so here will do. I have posted this question before in this thread but after getting the huge quantity of very helpful answers I did (lol?), I have looked at the problem again. A basic rundown is that I need to extract monitor information about connected monitors in a script, and

Code:

nvidia-settings

seems to be the answer after much searching. So if you run up nvidia-settings the configuration panel appears, and within this all attached monitors with make and model of the monitors is shown. Basically I want to be able to extract this data. I have tried

Code:

nvidia-settings -q all

and reviewed the output, and although the number of monitors attached is shown here as DFP-0 and DFP-1 on various lines, there is no model information at all about the monitors as is shown in the gui panel.

Does anyone know a way to extract this model information from the nvidia-settings via the command line?

Thanks in advance

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Code:

nvidia-settings -q digitalvibrance | grep -i crt

is going to be sufficient actually. Although that doesn't give me model numbers, the object of the exercise was to distinguish between a connected CRT and other types of monitors.

You could also try s3switch:

No there is no way to get model information from this utility.

One way I use is to parse the Xorg.0.log file.