Re: [Gumstix-users] Switch off LCD blanking

[Bas v. K. <bas...@gm...>]

On 11/19/05, Michael Petchkovsky <mk...@in...> wrote:

Hi Bas - yeah the screen blanking is a default behaviour and not nice
> with LCDs, you can send some control codes to the console to disable.
>
> Check out 'man console_codes' on your linux machine for a full listing
> there's heaps you can do.
>
> echo -ne "\033[9;0]\033[14;0]" > /dev/tty0
>
> switches off both screen blanking and VESA powerdown (havn't actually
> confirmed that both come into play but no harm disabling both), fixes
> the problem you describe. You can put this in a startup script somewhere.
>
> echo -ne "\033[13]" > /dev/tty0    will unblank an already blanked screen
> echo -ne "\033c" > /dev/tty0         is handy to clear and reset the
> screen
>
> you can set text colours and other cool stuff.
>
> You can send the text output of any program to the screen this way
>
> eg   ls /bin > /dev/tty0
>        echo -e "Hello\nWorld!" > /dev/tty0
>        cat > /dev/tty0
>
> - Michael
>


Sorry for the late reaction, but thanks a lot for the tips, they work great=
!

Regards,
Bas