radeontool

utility to get/set registers and to control backlight on radeon based laptops

Synopsis

radeontool [option] [command]

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  ./radeontool regset FP_GEN_CNTL 0x0023058d

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.

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

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

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

author

This manual page was written by Luigi Gangitano luigi[:at:]debian[:dot:]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.