Re: [lcd4linux] lcd4linux clean shutdown

[Till H. / L. <li...@ha...>]

Hi,

that's unintended. The glcd2usb should be painting some simple
"splash screen" while not being used. This sounds like your board
is switching USB power on and off on driver load/unload.

Till

On Monday, May 02, 2011 08:16:50 Stefan Krister wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> Jonathan McCrohan schrieb am 02.05.2011 01:02:
> > I am wondering what the easiest method of making lcd4linux clear the
> > screen and dim the backlight on a Matrix Orbital LCD display upon
> > shutdown.
> 
> I was very surprised with my GLCD2USB plugged into my PC Engines Alix
> board. 1st the display was off. During boot as the USB driver loads the
> display came to life and the display screensaver [1] ran. When lcd4linux
> started, normal content was shown [2].
> 
> On shutdown the same in opposit happened. At the end, all was dark and off.
> 
> > My current thinking is to create an script in /etc/rc0.d/ to run a
> > second lcd4linux instance with a modified config file to simply clear
> > the screen and dim the backlight and exit, however this seems wasteful.
> 
> I would do it this way. However I wish to have a way to alter the
> brightness during run without changching the config file and restart
> lcd4linux.
> 
> [1] http://gallery.port23.de/v/bastard/lcd/GLCD2USB/glcd2usb+061.JPG.html
> [2] http://gallery.port23.de/v/bastard/lcd/GLCD2USB/glcd2usb+066.png.html
> 
> Bye
> 
> Stefan
> 
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