.TH I2CDETECT 8 "March 2004"
.SH NAME
i2cdetect \- detect I\u2\dC chips

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B i2cdetect
.RI [ -f ]
.I i2cbus
.br
.B i2cdetect
.I -l

.SH DESCRIPTION
i2cdetect is a userspace program to scan an I\u2\dC bus for devices. It
outputs a table with the list of detected devices on the specified bus.
\fIi2cbus\fR indicates the number of the I\u2\dC bus to be scanned, and
should correspond to one of the busses listed by \fIi2cdetect -l\fR.

.SH WARNING
This program can confuse your I\u2\dC bus, cause data loss and worse!

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B "\-f"
Force scanning of non-regular addresses. Not recommended.
.TP
.B "\-l"
Output a list of installed busses.

.SH CONFORMING TO
lm_sensors-2.x

.SH SEE ALSO
i2cdump(8), sensors-detect(8)

.SH AUTHOR
Frodo Looijaard, Mark D. Studebaker, and the lm_sensors group
http://www.lm-sensors.nu/
This manual page was written by Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system. It was then reviewed by the lm_sensors team and
is now part of the lm_sensors source distribution.