From:  Colin Bester <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 6:45 AM
To:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] BBB LCD3 Cape and inactivity

> 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 ¹50¹ sets a 50% duty cycle and LCD brightens. I haven¹t set up
> environment to compile and test using OEc¹ files yet.
> 
> With low on pin P9_14 the LCD is still visible.
In that case this is a hardware issue. P9_14 is connected to the enable pin
of the LED backplane driver so the leds should turn off.

Regards,
John
> 
> 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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