[nigthlord]

Hi!

It seems I finally fixed the LCD issue which means my XBMC shuts down properly and LCD is off completely(no background light anymore)

Since I am very busy at the moment I could test it just twice but in both cases it worked

So this is what I did:

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd stop
echo -n "" > /etc/lcd0

Your Display should be dark now. If you get a permission denied do

Code:

sudo chmod og+w /dev/lcd0

and try again.

Now I just added

Code:

echo -n "" > /etc/lcd0

into the stop section of /etc/init.d/LCDd and everything works as expected.

I hope this will help

good luck

[S3RVO]

Hello, I am experiencing the same problem of my LCD not turning off after I power down and I tried to follow your small guide nightlord but the code: sudo chmod og+w /dev/lcd0 doesn't seem to do anything for me, as I still get the same message saying permission denied, I went ahead and added echo -n "" > /etc/lcd0 to the stop section of /etc/init.d/LCDd and it didnt appear to fix anything, just wondering if anyones has any insight on this as I've been searching for hours. It should be noted that I am not very familiar with linux

[astropolak]

I think the poster wanted echo -n "" > /dev/lcd0 not echo -n "" > /etc/lcd0"

RGDS

[S3RVO]

Thanks for the reply astropolak, I tried your suggestion but unfortunately it did not work either,

[astropolak]

Thanks for the reply astropolak, I tried your suggestion but unfortunately it did not work either,

To be honest I do not think this is needed, standard shut down routines work for me.
Jus to test I have done this:
bash: /dev/lcd0: Device or resource busy
root@joes-xbmc:/home/joem# fuser /dev/lcd0
/dev/lcd0: 1585
root@joes-xbmc:/home/joem# ps -aef|grep 1585
nobody 1585 1 0 08:06 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/LCDd -s 1 -f -c /etc/LCDd.conf
root@joes-xbmc:/home/joem# killall -9 LCDd
root@joes-xbmc:/home/joem# echo "" >/dev/lcd0
root@joes-xbmc:/home/joem# echo "test" >/dev/lcd0

Above:
you can not send anything to /dev/lcd0 when LCDd is running,
killing LCDd
now you clear the display with the echo "" .....
you can also send any text to the display echo "test" .....

RGDS