Radeontool - Revision history

Tonko: add note not to use this anymore

2009-04-20T12:34:47Z

add note not to use this anymore

Tonko: atitvout is dead, url is gone, does not work with modern Xorg

2009-04-20T12:29:32Z

atitvout is dead, url is gone, does not work with modern Xorg

Mr.Synner: /* Project Homepage / Availability */

2008-03-12T04:37:25Z

‎Project Homepage / Availability

Spiney: /* Features */ setuid bit is +s, info about sudo added

2005-12-16T13:57:02Z

‎Features: setuid bit is +s, info about sudo added

212.182.99.101: /* Features */

2005-12-16T12:45:19Z

‎Features

Thinker: /* See also */

2005-11-13T22:04:07Z

‎See also

192.117.108.16: /* Features */

2005-11-12T19:38:59Z

‎Features

Spiney: /* Features */ mention lightwatch.pl

2005-11-12T19:19:26Z

‎Features: mention lightwatch.pl

212.144.10.22: page created

2004-11-03T22:34:29Z

page created

New page

__TOC__
radeontool is a hack to turn on and off the panels background light and external video.

=== Features ===
*turn background light on/off
*turn external video on/off

=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
http://fdd.com/software/radeon/

=== Status ===
*stable and active

=== Interesting links related to this project ===
*[[atitvout]]

[[Category:Tools]]

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 === See also ===
 *[[Rovclock]]
 [[Category:Tools]]

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 There's also a script called [http://fdd.com/software/radeon/lightwatch.pl lightwatch.pl] available at the project homepage that turns off the background light whenever xscreensaver blanks the screen and back on when unblanked. A more sophisticated version can be found [http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100/node5.html#SECTION00055400000000000000 here].
-You may need to set
+{{cmdroot|chmod u+s /path/to/radeontool}}
-:{{cmdroot|chmod u+x radeontool}}
-to use it as non-root user (/dev/mem problem).
+in order to allow unprivileged users to use it.
 === Project Homepage / Availability ===

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	There's also a script called [http://fdd.com/software/radeon/lightwatch.pl lightwatch.pl] available at the project homepage that turns off the background light whenever xscreensaver blanks the screen and back on when unblanked. A more sophisticated version can be found [http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100/node5.html#SECTION00055400000000000000 here].		There's also a script called [http://fdd.com/software/radeon/lightwatch.pl lightwatch.pl] available at the project homepage that turns off the background light whenever xscreensaver blanks the screen and back on when unblanked. A more sophisticated version can be found [http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100/node5.html#SECTION00055400000000000000 here].
		+
		+
		+	You may need to set
		+	:{{cmdroot\|chmod u+x radeontool}}
		+	to use it as non-root user (/dev/mem problem).

	=== Project Homepage / Availability ===		=== Project Homepage / Availability ===

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 *turn external video on/off
-There's also a script called lightwatch.pl available at the project homepage that turns off the background light whenever xscreensaver blanks the screen and back on when unblanked.
+There's also a script called [http://fdd.com/software/radeon/lightwatch.pl lightwatch.pl] available at the project homepage that turns off the background light whenever xscreensaver blanks the screen and back on when unblanked. A more sophisticated version can be found [http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100/node5.html#SECTION00055400000000000000 here].
 === Project Homepage / Availability ===

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 __TOC__
 radeontool is a hack to turn on and off the panels background light and external video.
+{{NOTE|This tool should no longer be used, please use xrandr instead for setting external video modes. Backlight can be modified through sysfs}}
 === Features ===
 *turn background light on/off

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 *stable and active
-=== Interesting links related to this project ===
+=== See also ===
 *[[atitvout]]
 [[Category:Tools]]