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Patches for `graphlcd`

Patches for graphlcd

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use the most recent SVN versions to test these patches

patches for graphlcd-base

graphlcd-base has built-in support for dimming a display after a configurable time of user inactivity but the serdisplib-driver included in graphlcd-base does not yet provide support for this functionality.

i've made patches to glcddrivers/serdisp.c and glcddrivers/serdisp.h so that this functionality will be supported for serdisplib, too (provided that the driver used in serdisplib offers support for option BRIGHTNESS).

for those who do not like patching source files i've also provided the entire files attached to this page. simply overwrite glcddrivers/serdisp.c and glcddrivers/serdisp.h with these files.

these patches and source files respectively are only valid for the following versions of graphlcd-base:

graphlcd-base-0.1.5
graphlcd-base-0.2.0-pre1
current SVN tree (rev. 285 at the time of writing this how to): trunk/graphlcd-base

files

replacement files for glcddrivers/serdisp.c and glcddrivers/serdisp.h:
- serdisp.c, browse source: attachment:serdisp.c
- serdisp.h, browse source: attachment:serdisp.h
or alternatively use these patches (change into directory glcddrivers/ and apply each of these patches using patch -p1 < patch_somefile):
- patch_serdisp.c, browse source: attachment:patch_serdisp.c
- patch_serdisp.h, browse source: attachment:patch_serdisp.h

patches for vdr-graphlcd

vdr-graphlcd <= 0.1.5

no patches are required, dimming is already supported.

vdr-graphlcd 0.2.0-pre1 SVN

vdr-graphlcd 0.2.x does not yet provide support for dimming a display (the settings in the menu are dummy settings) but i've made some patches to the current SVN version (rev 278) to add support for dimming:

PATH_TO_VDR needs to be replaced through the real location of your VDR installation directory!

you need to fetch the current SVN branch of vdr-graphlcd 0.2.0-pre using the following commands:

cd PATH_TO_VDR/PLUGINS/src
svn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/graphlcd/branches/vdr-graphlcd-pre-0.2.0-skinning-branch \
       vdr-graphlcd-pre-0.2.0-skinning-branch_dimming

change into the newly created directory and apply the dimming patch (browse online: dimming patch):

cd vdr-graphlcd-pre-0.2.0-skinning-branch_dimming/
patch -p1 < vdr_graphlcd_rev278_dimming_support.patch

in directory PLUGINS/src/, link graphlcd to the patched version of graphlcd (delete old link if one exists):
```
cd PATH_TO_VDR/PLUGINS/src/
ln -s  vdr-graphlcd-pre-0.2.0-skinning-branch_dimming graphlcd
```
change into the root directory of vdr and build the plugin using
```
cd PATH_TO_VDR/
make plugins
```

if everything went well you should now be able to use graphlcd 0.2.0pre1 with all patches provided by fen (included in the SVN branch tree) and dimming support provided by my patch.

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