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DDCCONTROL(1) General Commands Manual DDCCONTROL(1)

NAME

ddccontrol - A utility to control monitor parameters via software

SYNOPSIS

ddccontrol [-b datadir] [-v] [-c] [-d] [-f] [-s] [-r ctrl [-w value]] [-p|dev]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the ddccontrol command.

ddccontrol is an open source utility which allows controlling monitor parameters via software.

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.
dev
device, e.g. dev:/dev/i2c-0
-p
probe I2C devices to find monitor buses
-c
query capability
-d
query ctrls 0 - 255
-r
query ctrl
-w
value to write to ctrl
-f
force (avoid validity checks)
-s
save settings
-v
verbosity (specify more to increase)
-b
ddccontrol-db directory (if other than /usr/share/ddccontrol-db)

SEE ALSO

The program is documented fully in
/usr/share/doc/ddccontrol/html/index.html

The project homepage: http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

ddccontrol was written by Oleg I. Vdovikin and Nicolas Boichat.
Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (oleg@cs.msu.su)
Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)

This manual page was written by Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>.

July 26, 2006