I just managed to get around to looking a little deeper into this and connected 
an oscilloscope to EHRPWM1A (which I figure is pin P9_14) and confirm that when 
writing a zero to brightness (using echo 0 > 
/sys/class/backlight/backlight.11/brightness) that the pin is low. Likewise 
write a '50' sets a 50% duty cycle and LCD brightens. I haven't set up 
environment to compile and test using 'c' files yet.

With low on pin P9_14 the LCD is still visible.

With debian version I now have running, I have not seen the LCD goto sleep yet 
- still have to look into this.

~C


On May 26, 2014, at 8:03 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> From: Colin Bester <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, May 26, 2014 at 4:54 PM
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] BBB LCD3 Cape and inactivity
> 
>> Was wondering if you have come up with any further solution? I can write '0' 
>> to backlight brightness but while this dims the display significantly it 
>> doesn't switch if off.
> 
> Have you checked that EHRPWM1A is low when you dim the display? Here are two 
> files that will control the backlight.
> 
> /driver/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
> /driver/pwm/pwm-tiehrpwm.c
> 
> Regards
> John



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