#!/usr/bin/ruby # Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display # see http://embdev.net/topic/284710 require 'base64' data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay` edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten productids=data.scan(/DisplayProductID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten displays = [] edids.each_with_index do |edid, i| disp = { "edid_hex"=>edid, "vendorid"=>vendorids[i].to_i, "productid"=>productids[i].to_i } displays.push(disp) end # Process all displays if displays.length > 1 puts "Found %d displays! You should only install the override file for the one which" % displays.length puts "is giving you problems.","\n" elsif displays.length == 0 puts "No display data found! Are any external displays connected?" end displays.each do |disp| # Retrieve monitor model from EDID display descriptor i = disp["edid_hex"].index('000000fc00') if i.nil? monitor_name = "Display" else # The monitor name is stored in (up to) 13 bytes of text following 00 00 00 fc 00. # If the name is shorter than 13 bytes, it is terminated with a newline (0a) and then padded with spaces. monitor_name = [disp["edid_hex"][i + 10, 26].to_s].pack("H*") monitor_name.rstrip! # remove trailing newline/spaces end puts "Found display '#{monitor_name}': vendor ID=#{disp["vendorid"]} (0x%x), product ID=#{disp["productid"]} (0x%x)" % [disp["vendorid"], disp["productid"]] puts "Raw EDID data:\n#{disp["edid_hex"]}" bytes=disp["edid_hex"].scan(/../).map{|x|Integer("0x#{x}")}.flatten puts "Setting color support to RGB 4:4:4 only" bytes[24] &= ~(0b11000) puts "Number of extension blocks: #{bytes[126]}" puts "removing extension block" bytes = bytes[0..127] bytes[126] = 0 bytes[127] = (0x100-(bytes[0..126].reduce(:+) % 256)) % 256 puts puts "Recalculated checksum: 0x%x" % bytes[127] puts "new EDID:\n#{bytes.map{|b|"%02X"%b}.join}" Dir.mkdir("DisplayVendorID-%x" % disp["vendorid"]) rescue nil filename = "DisplayVendorID-%x/DisplayProductID-%x" % [disp["vendorid"], disp["productid"]] puts "Output file: #{Dir.pwd}/#{filename}" f = File.open(filename, 'w') f.write ' ' f.write " DisplayProductName #{monitor_name} - forced RGB mode (EDID override) IODisplayEDID #{Base64.encode64(bytes.pack('C*'))} DisplayVendorID #{disp["vendorid"]} DisplayProductID #{disp["productid"]} " f.close puts "\n" end # displays.each