[burritoboy9984]

Running 10.1 dharma, and sometimes the backlight on the lcd turns off, and sometimes it stays on... Any ideas of how to figure out why it doesn't always shut off, and how I may go about getting it to turn off each time?

Thanks in advance!
-Erik

[burritoboy9984]

Anyone know how to even see the name of the screen...

-Erik

[burritoboy9984]

No one knows anything about imons?

-Erik

[danomac]

LCDd/lcdproc should turn the backlight off when you shut down, depending on the model you have.

I'm assuming you use a linux distro here, which one? I'm using gentoo on my htpc, so I compile from source/svn.

[burritoboy9984]

This was originally off a fresh install 9.11 (might have even been 9.04) live disc. I updated it I believe before 10.0 to svn...

Linux version 2.6.31-16-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.1 (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu8) ) #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009

It seems it only stays on after the first couple of times I wake/resume. After about the 5th time it seems to turn off. However there are times after (about 1/5) that it will stay on.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-Erik

[danomac]

It looks like an ubuntu fork.

On my htpc, those settings are in /etc/LCDd.conf.

In there, under the iMon settings, there should be an OnExit variable - mine was set to do nothing by default, I set it to 2 to blank the device.

Code:

## Soundgraph iMON LCD ##
[imonlcd]
# Specify which iMon protocol should be used [legal: 0=15c2:ffdc device,
# 1=15c2:0038 device; default: 0]
Protocol=1

# Set the exit behavior [legal: 0=leave shutdown message, 1=show the big clock,
# 2=blank device; default: 1]
OnExit=2

# Select the output device to use [default: /dev/lcd0]
Device=/dev/lcd0

# Select the displays contrast [default: 200; legal: 0-1000]
Contrast=200

# Specify the size of the display in pixels [default: 96x16]
#Size=96x16

# Set the backlight state [default: on; legal: on, off]
#Backlight=on

# Set the disc mode [legal: 0=spin the "slim" disc - two disc segments,
# 1=their complement spinning; default: 0]
#DiscMode=0

Failing that, the scripts that are used to sleep and restore need to be set to shut down the lcdproc device when sleeping, and reinitialize it when woken. That's likely very distribution-specific and I don't use ubuntu so I won't be of much help there.

[burritoboy9984]

It looks like an ubuntu fork.

On my htpc, those settings are in /etc/LCDd.conf.

In there, under the iMon settings, there should be an OnExit variable - mine was set to do nothing by default, I set it to 2 to blank the device.

Code:

## Soundgraph iMON LCD ##
[imonlcd]
# Specify which iMon protocol should be used [legal: 0=15c2:ffdc device,
# 1=15c2:0038 device; default: 0]
Protocol=1

# Set the exit behavior [legal: 0=leave shutdown message, 1=show the big clock,
# 2=blank device; default: 1]
OnExit=2

# Select the output device to use [default: /dev/lcd0]
Device=/dev/lcd0

# Select the displays contrast [default: 200; legal: 0-1000]
Contrast=200

# Specify the size of the display in pixels [default: 96x16]
#Size=96x16

# Set the backlight state [default: on; legal: on, off]
#Backlight=on

# Set the disc mode [legal: 0=spin the "slim" disc - two disc segments,
# 1=their complement spinning; default: 0]
#DiscMode=0

Failing that, the scripts that are used to sleep and restore need to be set to shut down the lcdproc device when sleeping, and reinitialize it when woken. That's likely very distribution-specific and I don't use ubuntu so I won't be of much help there.

Thanks, I will mess with it some more this weekend. I think you may have gotten me on the right track to narrowing it down

-Erik

[nikiiv]

Thanks, I will mess with it some more this weekend. I think you may have gotten me on the right track to narrowing it down

-Erik

I am using iMon for the last 3-4 years. Initially I had to patch and compile by myself.. Now in 11.04 Natty it is very very stable.. and works like charm