radeontool8
Utility to get/set registers and to control backlight on radeon based laptops
Usage
radeontool [option]
[command]
Overview
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]
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Power down the external video output |
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light [on|off]
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Power down the backlight |
stretch [on|off|vert|horiz|auto|manual]
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Adjusts stretching for resolution mismatch |
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Show a listing of some random registers |
regmatch [pattern]
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Show registers matching wildcard pattern |
regset [pattern] [value]
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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
-
--skip=n -
Skips the first n cards and acts on the n+1
Releases
8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.