NVDUMP(8)

πŸ“¦ version 0.4.7, in ubuntu jammy

✨ NAME ✨

nvdump β€” a whole program whose entire job is dumping NVidia TV-OUT encoder registers πŸ’–


πŸ¦‹ SYNOPSIS πŸ¦‹

nvdump [-ar2] [-i [incr]] <from> <to> ...
nvdump -s <addr> <val> <val> ...

πŸ’« DESCRIPTION πŸ’«

okay so here's the tea, bestie: nvdump dumps parts of the Nvidia TV-OUT encoder register space β€” and no, not the CRTC, that part's doing its own thing β€” and it is literally built for troubleshooting. πŸ› οΈβœ¨

You wanna run it when you suspect there might be register changes that are to output with nvtv -P. That's the assignment. That's the whole vibe. πŸ‘‘

πŸŽ€ OPTIONS πŸŽ€

  • -h, -?, --help β€” print help message. when in doubt, ask for help, no shame in it πŸ’…
  • -a β€” print all. all all. the whole thing. πŸ‘‘
  • -2 β€” print also PCRTC2 and PRAMDAC2 ✨
  • -r β€” print registers
  • -i β€” set increment
  • -s β€” set register values

🫢 AUTHOR 🫢

This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org> and Roberto Lumbreras <rover@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the BSD License. πŸ“œ


🌈 and that's a wrap, gorgeous! this one came straight out of the System Commands section, March 2002 edition β€” NVDUMP(8), signing off πŸ’–πŸŽ€βœ¨
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