Re: shutting down the LCD on the 5400

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:37:22PM -0500, Jason Waterman wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I know about bl, but I'd like to shut off the lcd entirely, not just the
> backlight. The blank program should do this, but it didn't work on the
> 5500 that I have.

I am pretty sure you want to clear bits 4 and 6 in gpio port b. Does
blank do that? I might try to gin something up if I get time. But don't
count on it.

E

> Erik Hovland wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:42:14PM -0500, Jason Waterman wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I'd like to shutdown the LCD on the 5400 to save power, but keep the
> >>rest of the ipaq going. I've found the following code shown below and
> >>the blank program (which I think is based on this code) but neither
> >>worked.
> >
> >
> >When you say that neither worked, did any of the vesa ioctls work? Do
> >you mean you found 'bl'?
> >
> >E
> >

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