How to get the vendor-id and product-id of your display on mac

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How to get the vendor-id and product-id of your display on mac

I am using El Capitan, but I am unable to find the vendor-id and product-id of my external display. The most information I get via "System Information" is this:

But that doesn't contain none of that information. Any idea's?

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Aug 8, 2016 12:05 PM

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Answer 1

JimmyCMPIT

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Aug 8, 2016 12:07 PM in response to mr_robot

what info do you need ?

the serial # is on the page before that one "about this mac"

that is the only thing Apple will ask for and no one else should be asking you for it.

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mr_robot Author

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Aug 8, 2016 12:11 PM in response to mr_robot

I know, but I am making a Plist to overwrite screen settings. (I'm an advanced user).

https://comsysto.github.io/Display-Override-PropertyList-File-Parser-and-Generat or-with-HiDPI-Support-For-Scaled-Resolutions/

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mr_robot Author

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Aug 8, 2016 2:33 PM in response to mr_robot

ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayPrefsKey

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