Hi Andrea,

On 13 December 2016 at 09:15, Andrea Venturi <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> Il giorno lunedì 12 dicembre 2016 03:20:56 UTC+1, Jonathan Liu ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> On 11 December 2016 at 22:48, Andrea Venturi <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> hello,
>>> ....
>>> the only issue is that, after few minutes (10 or so), the display switch
>>> to this kind of rendering:
>>>
>>>  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9QRW6Oy0GmeOGdvM3YyYUtqZHM
>>>
>>> no messages on syslog or console. i'm wondering which kind of "glitch"
>>> could bring to this (i suppose some kind of "clock power down"?).
>>>
>> Console blank is 600 seconds by default - kernel will turn off the
>> console after 10 minutes of inactivity.
>> Try adding consoleblank=0 to your kernel command line.
>>
>> It is powering down the display engine without powering off the LCD.
>>
>>
>
> thanx. indeed it was it. adding 'consoleblank=0'  has made the LCD
> rendering stable.
>
> BTW i'm wondering if there's eventually a way to turn back on the console.
>

Maybe something like this as root?
setterm --blank poke --term linux < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1


>
> i tried to type something on the serial console /dev/ttyS0 but that wasn't
>  enoguh for bringing the display back to life.
>
> on the other hand, this setup is unable to power down the display
> completely because the backlight is not driven by a GPIO pin but always on.
>
> Andrea
>

Regards,
Jonathan

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