On the Debian 5.0 machine (gBox) it turns out that  sh is just a symlink
to bash, whereas on Ubuntu it's a symlink to dash.

Here's the screen  output from running get-edid:

billy:~# get-edid > edid.bin
get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        VBE version 300
        VBE string at 0xc087c "S3 Graphics ProSavage DDR Family BIOS"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Report DDC capabilities

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call successful

        Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
        Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
        0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
        Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
        Read EDID

        Performing real mode VBE call
        Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
        Function supported
        Call failed

The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed
Error: output block unchanged
billy:~#

But the supposed binary output file is empty.

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dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails on Dell PowerEdge 400sc with Samsung 
SyncMaster 570s
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255561
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