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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.

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