[ddccontrol-users] Dell U2417H / DEL40E8

[Marcos D. <md...@gr...>]

    Just following instructions:

mdione@nimbus:~$ LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d
ddccontrol version 0.6.0
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.

Detected monitors :
 - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-6
   DDC/CI supported: No
   Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
   Input type: Digital
 - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-4
   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-4...
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/DEL40E8.xml"
Document not parsed successfully.

EDID readings:
        Plug and Play ID: DEL40E8 [VESA standard monitor]
        Input type: Analog
=============================== 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:
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
ioctl(): Inappropriate ioctl for device
ioctl returned -1
Capabilities read fail.

Controls (valid/current/max) [Description - Value name]:
Control 0x02: +/1/255 C [New Control Value - No changes]
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 0x10: +/40/100 C [Brightness]
Control 0x12: +/75/100 C [Contrast]
Control 0x14: +/0/12 C [???]
Control 0x16: +/97/100 C [Red maximum level]
Control 0x18: +/100/100 C [Green maximum level]
Control 0x1a: +/100/100 C [Blue maximum level]
Control 0x52: +/0/65535   [???]
Control 0x5c: +/0/65535   [???]
Control 0x60: +/17/17 C [Input Source Select (Main)]
Control 0x6c: +/50/255   [???]
Control 0x6e: +/50/255   [???]
Control 0x70: +/50/255   [???]
Control 0xaa: +/4/65535 C [OSD Orientation]
Control 0xac: +/1864/1 C [???]
Control 0xae: +/5990/0 C [???]
Control 0xb6: +/3/65535 C [???]
Control 0xc6: +/17868/65535 C [???]
Control 0xc8: +/22021/0 C [???]
Control 0xc9: +/16644/65535 C [???]
Control 0xd6: +/1/65535 C [DPMS Control - On]
Control 0xdc: +/0/5 C [???]
Control 0xdf: +/513/65535 C [???]
Control 0xe0: +/0/1 C [???]
Control 0xe1: +/0/1 C [Power control - Off]
Control 0xe2: +/0/25 C [???]
Control 0xf0: +/0/65535 C [???]
Control 0xf1: +/3/255 C [???]
Control 0xf2: +/0/255 C [???]
Control 0xfd: +/116/255 C [???]

    The first entry is the builtin panel for a Dell Precision 5220. Cheers,

	-- Marcos.