Re: How to turn off backlight of iMON-LCD at shutdown

Jarod Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.lcdproc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Feb 27, 2011, at 11:53 AM, jk wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Bengt Nilsson <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Seems to me most agree it's a hardware problem.
>> 
>> Why then, is  it possible for Windows to shut down the backlight of the 
>> display  when  powered off?
>> (For the picky, Powered off=By Start menu, not power switch or  pulling the 
>> cable)
>> 
> 
> That's correct - I actually think it's something to do with the shutdown process 
> in Ubuntu/Linux, but haven't been able to determine exactly where.

I've looked into it once or twice. So far as I can recall, you can shut down
lcdproc/LCDd, unload the imon driver, then shut down, and the display will
then light back up, so it seems like a Linux kernel usb layer thing, but I
don't have a clue what exactly.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
[email protected]
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