DRMINFO(1)

📦 version 8.1, in arch rolling

💅 drminfo(1) — like, the whole manual, but make it make sense 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to drminfo(1), a General Commands Manual situation. yes it's a real manual page and yes i'm about to make it slay for you. sit down, grab a lil snack 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

drminfo — print drm device information. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it prints info about your drm device and honestly? iconic. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

drminfo [options]

literally just the command and whatever options you want. no cap, that's the entire shape of it.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so drminfo prints various informations about the drm device. (yes, "informations" — we're keeping it, it's cute 💖). and like, what does that actually mean? it means it tells you about:

  • the outputs — the stuff your card is plugged into
  • the supported display resolutions (for connected outputs, obviously — an unplugged output isn't gonna give you resolutions, be so fr 🙈)
  • the supported framebuffer formats — the pixel format menu, basically

it's giving "let me just tell you everything about this card" and we love that for us.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -h — print usage info. the classic "help me i forgot" flag 🫶
  • -c nr — pick card number. you hand it nr and it goes to that card. main character selection energy 💅
  • -a — print all card info. everything. the full dump. the whole buffet ✨
  • -m — print misc card info (busid). the lil extras, specifically the busid 🦋
  • -o — print supported outputs (crtcs). all the outputs/crtcs your card is down with 💜
  • -p — print supported planes. planes! very demure, very mindful 🌈
  • -f — print supported framebuffer formats. the formats your card supports, listed out 🔥
  • -l — list all known framebuffer formats. not just the supported ones — all the known ones. the full encyclopedia 📚
heads up bestie: drminfo supports rgb and packed yuv formats only. that's the limit, that's the rule, we don't do anything else, periodt. ⭐

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

(the little comma after it in the original? yeah it's there. we keep it. we don't edit the source material 💀)

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> — the legend who made this happen. we stan. 🫶

Copyright (c) 2017 Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

like, free software fr fr — remix it, share it, just keep the license with it. 😭💜

and that's the page, bestie!! 🌸 thanks for reading all the way to the bottom, you're literally the best. this was drminfo(1) from the General Commands Manual, and yeah — DRMINFO(1) again at the very end, because manuals love a lil bookend moment. mwah 💋✨

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