#!/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" end displays.each do |disp| # Retrieve monitor model from EDID data monitor_name=[disp["edid_hex"].match(/000000fc00(.*?)0a/){|m|m[1]}.to_s].pack("H*") if monitor_name.empty? monitor_name = "Display" end puts "found display '#{monitor_name}': vendorid #{disp["vendorid"]}, productid #{disp["productid"]}, EDID:\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 f = File.open("DisplayVendorID-%x/DisplayProductID-%x" % [disp["vendorid"], disp["productid"]], '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