NAME¶

ddccontrol - A utility to control monitor parameters via software

SYNOPSIS¶

ddccontrol -p             [-cdfsv] [-b datadir] [-r ctrl [-w value]]
ddccontrol dev:/dev/i2c-N [-cdfsv] [-b datadir] [-r ctrl [-w value]]

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

a device specifier, for example: 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@connexer.com>.