Radeontool utility to get/set registers and to control backlight on radeon based laptops
radeontool [option] [command]
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.
You can specify one of the following commands:
Power down the external video output
Power down the backlight
Adjusts stretching for resolution mismatch
Show a listing of some random registers
Show registers matching wildcard pattern
Set registers matching wildcard pattern
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
Show a little debug info
Skips the first n cards and acts on the n+1
This manual page was written by Luigi Gangitano [email protected] 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.