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
- 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.
- --debug
- Show a little debug info
- --skip=n
- Skips the first n cards and acts on the n+1
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Luigi Gangitano luigi@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.