Mysterious text console decay (was Re: WLAN with Linux SDIO: sneak preview)

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Wed Nov 5 02:11:26 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| I'm starting a new thread for it, lest the WLAN thread gets too
| confusing.
|
| I let the freshly booted device sit idle for many hours and nothing
| happened. Then I booted again and let it sit some more but still got
| the same. The next try was with a bit of WLAN activity. That brought
| out the console problem (unfortunately, I forgot to check after how
| much time):
|
| This is roughly what the LCM normally looks like:
| http://people.openmoko.org/werner/lcm-normal.png
|
| And this is the decay (sorry about cutting off the left border):
| http://people.openmoko.org/werner/lcm-decayed.jpg
|
| You'd think someone had been playing Nethack ;-)
|
| As Andy predicted, pressing POWER brought back the screen in its
| former glory.

I think this can be OK... maybe the problem here is only that we are not
taking down the backlight right now at that time.  It's OK if the video
is insane or stopped then if it comes back OK when the backlight would
(ie, on power button press).

I did some meddling about the Glamo GPIO thing that went around the
houses including into glamofb.c before I saw it seemed to be a problem
with lack of comms to jbt6k74 on resume, maybe I have defeated the
framebuffer blanking action temporarily in there and that's all that
needs solving here.

- -Andy
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