NAME
radeontool — utility to get/set registers and to control backlight on radeon based laptops
SYNOPSIS
radeontool [option] [command]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the radeontool command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
radeontool is a program that switches on/off backlight and external output on ATI Radeon based laptops, and is able to list or set register values.
COMMANDS
You can specify
one of the following commands:
dac [on|off]
Power down the external video output
light [on|off]
Power down the backlight
stretch [on|off|vert|horiz|auto|manual]
Adjusts stretching for resolution mismatch
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regs |
Show a listing of some random registers |
regmatch [pattern]
Show registers matching wildcard pattern
regset [pattern] [value]
Set registers matching wildcard pattern
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (’−’). A summary of options is included below.
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−−debug |
Show a little debug info |
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−−skip=n |
Skips the first n cards and acts on the n+1 |
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Luigi Gangitano luigi [AT] debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.