ddccontrol/man/ddccontrol.1

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.TH DDCCONTROL 1 "October 5, 2018"
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.SH NAME
ddccontrol \- A utility to control monitor parameters via software
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ddccontrol
.B -p\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
.RB [ -cdfsv ]
.RB [ -b
.IR datadir ]
.RB [ -r
.IR ctrl
.RB [ -w
.IR value ]]
.br
.B ddccontrol
\fBdev:/dev/i2c-\fP\fIN\fP
.RB [ -cdfsv ]
.RB [ -b
.IR datadir ]
.RB [ -r
.IR ctrl
.RB [ -w
.IR value ]]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B ddccontrol
command.
.PP
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\fBddccontrol\fP is an open source utility which allows controlling monitor parameters via software.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B dev
a device specifier, for example: \fBdev:/dev/i2c-0\fP
.TP
.B \-p
probe I2C devices to find monitor buses
.TP
.B \-c
query capability
.TP
.B \-d
query ctrls 0 - 255
.TP
.B \-r
query ctrl
.TP
.B \-w
value to write to ctrl
.TP
.B \-f
force (avoid validity checks)
.TP
.B \-s
save settings
.TP
.B \-v
verbosity (specify more to increase)
.TP
.B \-b
ddccontrol-db directory (if other than /usr/share/ddccontrol-db)
.SH SEE ALSO
The program is documented fully in
.br
/usr/share/doc/ddccontrol/html/index.html
.PP
The project homepage: http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net
.SH AUTHOR
ddccontrol was written by Oleg I. Vdovikin and Nicolas Boichat.
.br
Copyright 2004\-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (oleg@cs.msu.su)
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Copyright 2004\-2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)
.PP
This manual page was written by Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com>.