Hardware that works with Ubuntu
Yes there is, read-edid hardware information-gathering tool for VESA PnP monitors. This tool have two commands: get-edid and parse-edid: tools to retrieve and interpret monitor specifications using the VESA VBE DDC protocol. EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) is a metadata format for display devices to describe their capabilities to a video source.
First:
sudo apt-get install read-edid
Then try:
sudo get-edid | parse-edid