[Lcdproc] Re: lcdproc-0.5.1 and serialized HD44780 on k-data wake-up 2.0 module

[Bernd Büchs]

Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 16:38 schrieb Matteo Pillon:
> Uhmmm, I think raising the timeout in your firmware isn't a good solution
> (i.e. the user can stand in a menu for more than 10 seconds...).
> We should integrate a way to keep the display alive in the driver (as
> pointed out by Joris Robijn). If anyone has a good idea for
> implementing this... I'm a bit busy at the moment, don't know if I can
> work on this on the weekend...
I am looking forward to test it, whenever it will get available. :-)

> Attached a patch to send 0xCF on shutdown (wasn't already there) and
> to fix the missing close()... (hey, this was missing also on
> pic-an-lcd driver! ;-).
I tried the patch.
When I start LCDd and stop it I recognized that LCD backlight went off quicker 
than before. I assume, now it went off by receiving 0xCF, in the unpatched 
version it went off by firmware.
So my conclusion I that the patch works!

Regards


Bernd