Dell U2515Hc Rev. A01

[Naruni-Crawl]

Through some stare & compare I learned this:
0x60, 0x6c, 0x6e, 0x70 are all 16 while using mDP and all 17 while using HDMI 1.

Arch Linux using standard Intel open source VGA driver (Intel i7-4790s)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)

ddccontrol version 0.4.2
Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (oleg@cs.msu.su)
Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)
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/DELD06F.xml"
Document not parsed successfully.
.......
Detected monitors :

• Device: dev:/dev/i2c-6
  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-6...
  I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/DELD06F.xml"
  Document not parsed successfully.

EDID readings:
Plug and Play ID: DELD06F [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
ddccontrol-users@lists.sourceforge.net:

LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d

Thank you.
=============================== WARNING ===============================

Capabilities:
Raw output: (prot(monitor)type(LCD)model(U2515H)cmds(01 02 03 07 0C E3 F3)vcp(02 04 05 08 10 12 14(04 0B 05 06 08 09 0C) 16 18 1A 52 60(0F 10 11 12) AA(01 02 04) AC AE B2 B6 C6 C8 C9 D6(01 04 05) DC(00 02 03 05) DF E0 E1 E2(00 01 02 04 14 19 0C 0D 0F 10 11 13) F0(00 08) F1(01 02) F2 FD)mswhql(1)asset_eep(40)mccs_ver(2.1))
Parsed output:
VCP: 02 04 05 08 10 12 14 16 18 1a 52 60 aa ac ae b2 b6 c6 c8 c9 d6 dc df e0 e1 e2 f0 f1 f2 fd
Type: Unknown

Controls (valid/current/max) [Description - Value name]:
Control 0x02: +/2/2 C [Secondary Degauss]
Control 0x04: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Defaults]
Control 0x05: +/0/1 C [Restore Brightness and Contrast]
Control 0x06: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x08: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Default Color]
Control 0x0b: +/100/0 [???]
Control 0x0e: +/100/0 [???]
Control 0x10: +/25/100 C [Brightness]
Control 0x12: +/40/100 C [Contrast]
Control 0x14: +/5/12 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 0x1e: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x1f: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x20: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x30: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x3e: +/0/1 [???]
Control 0x52: +/242/255 C [???]
Control 0x60: +/16/18 C [Input Source Select]
Control 0x6c: +/16/18 [???]
Control 0x6e: +/16/18 [???]
Control 0x70: +/16/18 [???]
Control 0xaa: +/1/255 C [OSD Orientation - Landscape]
Control 0xac: +/23564/1 C [???]
Control 0xae: +/6010/65535 C [???]
Control 0xb2: +/1/1 C [???]
Control 0xb6: +/3/5 C [???]
Control 0xc0: +/3225/65535 [???]
Control 0xc6: +/17868/65535 C [???]
Control 0xc8: +/4361/17 C [???]
Control 0xc9: +/256/65535 C [???]
Control 0xca: +/1/2 [???]
Control 0xcc: +/2/11 [???]
Control 0xd6: +/1/5 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: +/0/255 C [???]
Control 0xf1: +/3/255 C [???]
Control 0xf2: +/0/255 C [???]
Control 0xfc: +/0/255 [???]
Control 0xfd: +/99/255 C [???]
Invalid response, first byte is 0x82, should be 0x6e
82 01 fe 42 fd 00 00 ff 00 63 d5 | ...B.....c.
Invalid response, first byte is 0x82, should be 0x6e
82 01 fe 42 fd 00 00 ff 00 63 d5 | ...B.....c.
Invalid response, first byte is 0x82, should be 0x6e
82 01 fe 42 fd 00 00 ff 00 63 d5 | ...B.....c.

[mem-]

Hi,

This looks very much like the output from my DELL U2715H, but my monitor says;
Plug and Play ID: DELD065 [Dell U2515H]
The caps line doesn't match from the DELD065.xml file.

Is the best way forward to follow ddccontrol-db/doc/how-to-add-a-monitor.md and create a DELD065b.xml file?

Regards,
// mem