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=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
 
=== Project Homepage / Availability ===
 
http://fdd.com/software/radeon/
 
http://fdd.com/software/radeon/
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Slackware v12 does not include radeontool, so I had to find source. I was unable to connect to the any server at fdd.com on March 11, 2008. I was able to locate source and compile it for my T30 from http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/r/radeontool/
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Perhaps we could host the source here too?
  
 
=== Status ===
 
=== Status ===

Revision as of 06:37, 12 March 2008

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

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. A more sophisticated version can be found here.

You may need to set up sudo (preferred method) or make the executable setuid root by issuing

# chmod u+s /path/to/radeontool

in order to allow unprivileged users to use it.

Project Homepage / Availability

http://fdd.com/software/radeon/


Slackware v12 does not include radeontool, so I had to find source. I was unable to connect to the any server at fdd.com on March 11, 2008. I was able to locate source and compile it for my T30 from http://mirror.x10.com/mirror/ubuntu/pool/main/r/radeontool/

Perhaps we could host the source here too?

Status

  • stable and active

See also