[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 81, Issue 51

Ken Johnson kennethjohnson6 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 05:03:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> > For some reason, this currently seems to be broken, and nobody has come up with a
>> >fix yet. The lcdproc daemon can be configured to turn the display off, and it does turn it
>> >off for a bit during shutdown, but the display lights back up as soon as the box finishes
>> > powering off... So far as I know, we send the exact same display off packet sequence
>> >as windows does, so I can't really explain it. My best guess is that maybe the imon driver
>> >needs to be unloaded cleanly (modprobe -r), sending those display off commands in its
>> >module_exit() routine, and then maybe it'll stay off, but its just a WAG. Not high on my
>> >priority list to poke at it though, but I'd welcome any assistance in determining root cause
>> >and a fix.
>>     
> It's been a few years since I did my initial experiments with the LCD,
> so I hope my memory is correct.
>
> As I recall, you are correct that we do send the same data as windows
> does. When I was testing, I did both monitoring from the windows side
> using usb snoopy, and I installed windows in a virtualbox instance
> running under linux and monitored what usb commands got passed through
> to the hardware. I couldn't find any sort of command that we aren't
> passing properly.
>
> As far as your modprobe comment, I don't think that's it. I
> experimented with writing a userspace driver for the device using
> libusb and I got the same results. It seems unlikely to get the same
> problem through 2 different interfaces, so I suspect it's something
> lower level. My WAG has always been something like linux issuing a USB
> bus reset on poweroff.
>
> Anyway, it's annoying, but I learned to live with it....mostly because
> my machine does suspend-to-ram, and for that the LCD actually stays
> off.
>
> Disclaimer: none of this is very fresh in my memory, so I hope I
> didn't say something that was inaccurate. Also, I'm not a very
> experience driver writer, so it's possible I completely screwed up in
> my testing/debugging methodology. Take that for what it's worth.
>   
Thanks alot I was hoping that it would be a one time lcd bios set it and
forget it fix but i guess not. thanks anyway


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