jd68 wrote: > Just another idea to check (): > There are two generations of these displays: With the newer one you can > control the brightness of the backlight while the first generation has > only an on/off capability. In both types, the backlight is controlled by > the content of the file > '/sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness'. > For the first generation, a value greater than '0' will switch on the > the backlight while '0' means 'backlight off'. > The second generations accepts values between 0 and 255. The higher the > value the higher the brightness. Now comes the important part for you, > kbpro: values lower than 10 (or 11) lead to a black (or dark) display > what is similar to the behaviour of your display. > > Hence, I suggest to check the value in the file > '/sys/class/backlight/rpi_backlight/brightness' whether it is in the > range of 1 ... 10. If yes, then choose an higher one (50 is more than > sufficient.
Thank you for the suggestion jd68. I just checked and it is set to 255. One note from the distributor (thanks buyapi.ca) - they don't think that the numbers on the back of the panel correspond to a manufacturing date, so that may be a red herring. kbprop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kbpro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71746 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113512 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
