---
name: "ddccontrol"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ddccontrol"
version: "1.0.3-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ddccontrol"
---

# ddccontrol(1)

A utility to control monitor parameters via software

## NAME

ddccontrol - A utility to control monitor parameters via software

## SYNOPSIS

**ddccontrol** **-p**             \[**-cdfsv**\] \[**-b** *datadir*\] \[**-r** *ctrl* \[**-w** *value*\]\]\
 **ddccontrol** **dev:/dev/i2c-***N* \[**-cdfsv**\] \[**-b** *datadir*\] \[**-r** *ctrl* \[**-w** *value*\]\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **ddccontrol** command.

**ddccontrol** is an open source utility which allows controlling monitor parameters via software.

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **dev**

  a device specifier, for example: **dev:/dev/i2c-0**

- **-p**

  probe I2C devices to find monitor buses

- **-c**

  query capability

- **-d**

  query ctrls 0 - 255

- **-r**

  query ctrl

- **-w**

  value to write to ctrl

- **-f**

  force (avoid validity checks)

- **-s**

  save settings

- **-v**

  verbosity (specify more to increase)

- **-b**

  ddccontrol-db directory (if other than /usr/share/ddccontrol-db)

## SEE ALSO

The program is documented fully in\
 /usr/share/doc/ddccontrol/html/index.html

The project homepage: http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net

## AUTHOR

ddccontrol was written by Oleg I. Vdovikin and Nicolas Boichat.\
 Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (oleg@cs.msu.su)\
 Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)

This manual page was written by Roberto C. Sanchez \<roberto@connexer.com\>.