Tag | Description |
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vbestate |
vbetool will use the VESA 0x4f0f extensions to save or restore hardware
state. This will be sent to or read from stdin. This information is
highly hardware specific - do not attempt to restore state saved from
a different machine. This command will not work unless you are at a
text console, as it interferes badly with X.
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dpms |
vbetool will use the VESA 0x4f10 extensions to alter the power management
state of your screen. "On", "off", "standby", "suspend" and "reduced"
are acceptable further options and determine which state will be
activated.
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vbemode |
vbetool will get or set the current VESA mode. "get" will return the current
mode number on stdout - "set" will set the mode to the next argument.
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vgamode |
vbetool will set the legacy VGA mode to the following numeric argument.
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post |
vbetool will attempt to run BIOS code located at c000:0003. This is the code
run by the system BIOS at boot in order to intialise the video
hardware. Note that on some machines (especially laptops), not all of
this code is present after system boot - as a result, executing this
command may result in undefined behaviour. This command must be run
from a text console, as it will otherwise interfere with the operation
of X.
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vgastate |
vbetool will enable or disable the current video card. On most hardware, disabling
will cause the hardware to stop responding until it is reenabled. You
probably dont want to do this if youre using a framebuffer.
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vbefp | vbetool will execute a VESA flat panel interface call. |
panelid will provide information about the panel | |
panelsize will provide the size of the panel | |
getbrightness will provide the current screen brightness as an integer | |
setbrightness accepts an integer as an argument and will set the screen brightness to that | |
invert will invert the colours of the screen
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The vbestate command may behave in strange ways.
The post command may result in the execution of arbitrary code that happens to be lying around in the area where chunks of your video BIOS used to be.
The VESA specification does not require that "vbemode get" provides the correct mode if the current mode was set via some means other than the VESA BIOS extensions.
The VESA flat panel interface ceased development at the proposal stage. panelid and panelsize will work on many machines, but the other arguments are unlikely to be implemented on available hardware.
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