VIA_REGS_DUMP(8)

📦 version 0.6.0, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ via_regs_dump — the vibe check 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to VIA_REGS_DUMP(8), a System Manager's Manual page, and honestly? it's giving niche but iconic. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

🌸 NAME 🌸

via_regs_dump — a tool for debugging the OpenChrome display driver. yeah. that's the whole thing. she's a debugger girlie and she knows it. 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

via_regs_dump [options]

that's it. that's the whole incantation. no positional args, no drama, just options. periodt. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so context, because you deserve it: the OpenChrome project is committed to providing and supporting fully free and Open Source drivers — like, the whole point — and those drivers take full advantage of the hardware acceleration of VIA chipsets featuring the VIA UniChrome, UniChrome Pro and Chrome9 integrated graphics processors.

so yeah, this is the little tool that helps you peek at what's going on in there when the driver's acting up. she's the friend who reads the group chat receipts. 🔍💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

every flag, no skips, no cap. here we go bestie:

  • -h, --help — display this usage message. the classic "help me bestie" move. 🫶
  • -d, --dump — dump all registers. everything. the whole closet. 👑
  • -p, --pll — display PLL. (phase-locked loop girlies rise up 🌈)
  • -m, --mode — display modes. ✨
  • -r, --read — read a register. example: $0 -r 3d5.17 — yes, exactly like that, character for character, do not freestyle it 🙈
  • -w, --write — write to a register. example: $0 -w 3d5.17 0xa3 — same deal, copy it exactly, she's precise 💖
  • -g, --gpio — display GPIO state. lowkey the most underrated one ngl 🌸
pro tip from your girl: these examples use $0, which is literally the script/tool itself. don't @ me, just type it right. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read the wiki, bestie, it's free and it slaps. 🦋

via-chrome-tool (C) 2009 by VIA Technologies, Inc. — and listen, this is FREE SOFTWARE with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. like, absolutely zero. none. she is free and she is unbothered and if something breaks that's on you, not her. 💅

and that's the page!! tysm for reading, you ate that. 🎀

this was the September 2017 edition of VIA_REGS_DUMP(8) — sending you love from the System Manager's Manual, mwah 💖✨

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