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Expand Up @@ -43,15 +43,6 @@ Displays the error log status of the various VideoCore software areas.
Displays the build date and version of the firmware on the VideoCore.
.
.TP
.B get_camera
Displays the enabled and detected state of the official camera. 1 means yes, 0
means no. Whilst all firmware (except cutdown versions) will support the camera,
this support needs to be enabled by using the
.I start_x
boot option
.BR [BOOT] .
.
.TP
.B get_throttled
Returns the throttled state of the system. This is a bit pattern - a bit being
set indicates the following meanings:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -190,10 +181,6 @@ parameter are
or simply use the name of the configuration item.
.
.TP
.B get_lcd_info
Displays the resolution and colour depth of any attached display.
.
.TP
.B mem_oom
Displays statistics on any Out Of Memory events occuring in the VC4 memory
space.
Expand All @@ -206,54 +193,6 @@ Displays statistics from the relocatable memory allocator on the VC4.
.B read_ring_osc
Returns the curent speed voltage and temperature of the ring oscillator.
.
.TP
.B hdmi_timings
Displays the current HDMI settings timings. See
.B [VIDEO]
for details of the values returned.
.
.TP
.B dispmanx_list
Dump a list of all dispmanx items currently being displayed.
.
.TP
.BI display_power \ 0|1|-1
.TQ
.BI display_power " 0|1|-1 display"
Show current display power state, or set the display power state.
.I vcgencmd display_power 0
will turn off power to the current display.
.I vcgencmd display_power 1
will turn on power to the display. If no parameter is set, this will display
the current power state. The final parameter is an optional display ID, as
returned by
.I tvservice -l
or from the table below, which allows a specific display to be turned on or
off.
.IP
.I vcgencmd display_power 0 7
will turn off power to display ID 7, which is HDMI 1 on a Raspberry Pi 4.
.TS
tab(|);
l l .
Display|ID
\_|\_
.T&
l n .
Main LCD|0
Secondary LCD|1
HDMI 0|2
Composite|3
HDMI 1|7
.TE
.IP
To determine if a specific display ID is on or off, use -1 as the first
parameter.
.IP
.I vcgencmd display_power -1 7
will return 0 if display ID 7 is off, 1 if display ID 7 is on, or -1 if display
ID 7 is in an unknown state, for example undetected.
.
.
.SH EXIT STATUS
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