How To Blank Screen

[acpkendo]

Is there any way to blank the screen while listening to xmms-embedded?  I saw the following page on the OESF wiki:

https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Turning_off_the_screen

Which describes how to do it with a qcop command (how I'd ideally like to do it):

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qcop QPE/System 'setBlankLCD(int)' 1
But this produces no result on my install of OZ 3.5.2.  I checked to ensure that I DO have opie-qcop installed. . . are there any other packages I'd need?

[grog]

I'm wanting to do the same thing. Was a solution to this ever found? thks

[lardman]

It must be possible as there's a setting to blank the screen rather than suspend in the Light & Power settings - I'd look in the code for the applet and see what it calls.


Si

[Hiddenface]

It must be possible as there's a setting to blank the screen rather than suspend in the Light & Power settings - I'd look in the code for the applet and see what it calls.

Si
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This has not worked for me for a while, it just turns the backlight off.

[lardman]

What device are you running, and which kernel?

With the 2.6.x kernels you should be able to do:

echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/*/power

To switch the power off (I think that's the right direction).


This is the code from ODevice in libopie2 which performs the switching off:

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bool Zaurus::setDisplayStatus( bool on )
{
    bool res = false;
    if ( m_embedix )
    {
        int fd = ::open( SHARP_FL_IOCTL_DEVICE, O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK );
        if ( fd )
        {
            int ioctlnum = on ? SHARP_FL_IOCTL_ON : SHARP_FL_IOCTL_OFF;
            res = ( ::ioctl ( fd, ioctlnum, 0 ) == 0 );
            ::close ( fd );
        }
    }
    else
    {
        int fd = ::open( m_backlightdev + "power", O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK );
        if ( fd )
        {
            char buf[10];
            buf[0] = on ? FB_BLANK_UNBLANK : FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
            buf[1] = '\0';
            res = ( ::write( fd, &buf[0], 2 ) == 0 );
            ::close( fd );
        }
    }
    return res;
}


Si