Re: [ddccontrol-users] 2 monitors addition to db BNQ78E4 and BNQ78D9

[Lemmy <lem...@pr...>]

These two xml files work for just the basic functionailty, based off of Swyter's <swy...@gm...> file for the BNQ78DB which is in the source

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On Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 at 6:25 PM, Lemmy <lem...@pr...> wrote:

> Output of LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d
> These two benQ monitors are not in the db on github as well
> BNQ78E4 is BenQ GW2470HL
> and
> BNQ78D9 is BenQ GW2470HM
>
> The one below outputs for BNQ78D9 is BenQ GW2470HM adding the other one below this
>
>> ddccontrol version 0.4.3
>> Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (ol...@cs...)
>> Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (ni...@bo...)
>> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>>
>> Probing for available monitorsnvidia_open: cannot open /dev/mem: Permission denied
>> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/BNQ78D9.xml"
>> Document not parsed successfully.
>> .I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/BNQ78E4.xml"
>> Document not parsed successfully.
>> ........
>> Detected monitors :
>> - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-8
>> DDC/CI supported: Yes
>> Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
>> Input type: Digital
>> (Automatically selected)
>> - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-7
>> DDC/CI supported: Yes
>> Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
>> Input type: Digital
>> Reading EDID and initializing DDC/CI at bus dev:/dev/i2c-8...
>> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/BNQ78D9.xml"
>> Document not parsed successfully.
>>
>> EDID readings:
>> Plug and Play ID: BNQ78D9 [VESA standard monitor]
>> Input type: Digital
>> =============================== WARNING ===============================
>> There is no support for your monitor in the database, but ddccontrol is
>> using a basic generic profile. Many controls will not be supported, and
>> some controls may not work as expected.
>> Please update ddccontrol-db, or, if you are already using the latest
>> version, please send the output of the following command to
>> ddc...@li...:
>>
>> LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d
>>
>> Thank you.
>> =============================== WARNING ===============================
>>
>> Capabilities:
>> Raw output: (prot(monitor)type(LCD)model(GW2470HM)cmds(01 02 03 07 0C F3)vcp(02 04 05 08 0B 0C 10 12 14(04 05 08 0B) 16 18 1A 52 60(01 03 11)62 8D(01 02)AC AE B2 B6 C0 C6 C8 C9 CA(01 02) CC(01 02 03 04 05 06 09 0A 0B 0D 0E 0F 12 14 1A 1E 1F 20)D6(01 05) DF)mswhql(1)mccs_ver(2.1)asset_eep(32)mpu_ver(1.02))
>> Parsed output:
>> VCP: 02 04 05 08 0b 0c 10 12 14 16 18 1a 52 60 62 8d ac ae b2 b6 c0 c6 c8 c9 ca cc d6 df
>> Type: Unknown
>>
>> Controls (valid/current/max) [Description - Value name]:
>> Control 0x02: +/1/2 C [Secondary Degauss - Secondary Degauss]
>> Control 0x04: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Defaults]
>> Control 0x05: +/0/1 C [Restore Brightness and Contrast]
>> Control 0x08: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Default Color]
>> Control 0x0b: +/50/50 C [???]
>> Control 0x0c: +/70/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0x10: +/0/100 C [Brightness]
>> Control 0x12: +/50/100 C [Contrast]
>> Control 0x14: +/5/11 C [???]
>> Control 0x16: +/100/100 C [Red maximum level]
>> Control 0x18: +/100/100 C [Green maximum level]
>> Control 0x1a: +/100/100 C [Blue maximum level]
>> Control 0x52: +/0/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0x60: +/17/4 C [Input Source Select]
>> Control 0x62: +/100/100 C [Audio Speaker Volume Adjust]
>> Control 0x6c: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x6e: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x70: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x8d: +/2/3 C [???]
>> Control 0xac: +/2464/1 C [???]
>> Control 0xae: +/6000/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xb2: +/1/8 C [???]
>> Control 0xb6: +/3/5 C [???]
>> Control 0xc0: +/7962/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xc6: +/90/255 C [???]
>> Control 0xc8: +/5/88 C [???]
>> Control 0xc9: +/778/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xca: +/2/2 C [???]
>> Control 0xcb: +/2/6 [???]
>> Control 0xcc: +/2/32 C [???]
>> Control 0xd6: +/1/5 C [DPMS Control - On]
>> Control 0xdf: +/513/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xfe: +/0/0 [???]
>
> For the HL model:
>
>> ddccontrol version 0.4.3
>> Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (ol...@cs...)
>> Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (ni...@bo...)
>> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>>
>> Probing for available monitors....I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/BNQ78E4.xml"
>> Document not parsed successfully.
>> ........
>> Detected monitors :
>> - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-7
>> DDC/CI supported: Yes
>> Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
>> Input type: Digital
>> (Automatically selected)
>> Reading EDID and initializing DDC/CI at bus dev:/dev/i2c-7...
>> I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/BNQ78E4.xml"
>> Document not parsed successfully.
>>
>> EDID readings:
>> Plug and Play ID: BNQ78E4 [VESA standard monitor]
>> Input type: Digital
>> =============================== WARNING ===============================
>> There is no support for your monitor in the database, but ddccontrol is
>> using a basic generic profile. Many controls will not be supported, and
>> some controls may not work as expected.
>> Please update ddccontrol-db, or, if you are already using the latest
>> version, please send the output of the following command to
>> ddc...@li...:
>>
>> LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d
>>
>> Thank you.
>> =============================== WARNING ===============================
>>
>> Capabilities:
>> Raw output: (prot(monitor)type(LCD)model(GW2470HL)cmds(01 02 03 07 0C F3)vcp(02 04 05 08 0B 0C 10 12 14(04 05 08 0B) 16 18 1A 52 60(01 11 12)62 8D(01 02)AC AE B2 B6 C0 C6 C8 C9 CA(01 02) CC(01 02 03 04 05 06 09 0A 0B 0D 0E 0F 12 14 1A 1E 1F 20)D6(01 05) DF)mswhql(1)mccs_ver(2.1)asset_eep(32)mpu_ver(1.02))
>> Parsed output:
>> VCP: 02 04 05 08 0b 0c 10 12 14 16 18 1a 52 60 62 8d ac ae b2 b6 c0 c6 c8 c9 ca cc d6 df
>> Type: Unknown
>>
>> Controls (valid/current/max) [Description - Value name]:
>> Control 0x02: +/1/2 C [Secondary Degauss - Secondary Degauss]
>> Control 0x04: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Defaults]
>> Control 0x05: +/0/1 C [Restore Brightness and Contrast]
>> Control 0x08: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Default Color]
>> Control 0x0b: +/50/50 C [???]
>> Control 0x0c: +/70/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0x10: +/53/100 C [Brightness]
>> Control 0x12: +/50/100 C [Contrast]
>> Control 0x14: +/5/11 C [???]
>> Control 0x16: +/96/100 C [Red maximum level]
>> Control 0x18: +/93/100 C [Green maximum level]
>> Control 0x1a: +/90/100 C [Blue maximum level]
>> Control 0x52: +/0/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0x60: +/17/4 C [Input Source Select]
>> Control 0x62: +/31/100 C [Audio Speaker Volume Adjust]
>> Control 0x6c: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x6e: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x70: +/50/100 [???]
>> Control 0x8d: +/2/3 C [???]
>> Control 0xac: +/2464/1 C [???]
>> Control 0xae: +/6000/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xb2: +/1/8 C [???]
>> Control 0xb6: +/3/5 C [???]
>> Control 0xc0: +/4627/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xc6: +/90/255 C [???]
>> Control 0xc8: +/5/88 C [???]
>> Control 0xc9: +/778/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xca: +/2/2 C [???]
>> Control 0xcb: +/2/6 [???]
>> Control 0xcc: +/2/32 C [???]
>> Control 0xd6: +/1/5 C [DPMS Control - On]
>> Control 0xdf: +/513/65535 C [???]
>> Control 0xfe: +/0/0 [???]