CRT or LCD monitor?

erwinfletch · 09-25-2006, 01:24 PM

Hi-

I'd like to know if it's possible to programmatically find out if the monitor being used is a CRT or LCD. More specifically, does the monitor have a sub-pixel display.

Is this info stored in a config file somewhere that I can parse?

Thanks!

ralvez · 09-25-2006, 02:13 PM

I do not know if there is a way to find that out, but ... most LCDs now a days work on the high end res 1024x1280 so yo can use JavaScript (I assume you are doing some web development?) to test for the resolution.

Hope this helps.

R

paulsm4 · 09-25-2006, 02:56 PM

You can also either:

1. look into the DDC API:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Data_Channel (any supported monitor)

or

2. parse the XF86Config file (Linux only)