Tips+and+Tricks

=Introduction= This page contains some general tips and tricks related to the use of Liux, Ubuntu, DevKit8000, VMWare etc. Check back every now and then

Disabling LCD power save mode
The LCD screen on the DevKit8000 can be used by piping output to. However, it will enter power save mode about 1 minute after boot, from which it will not recover even if text is output to it. This can be countered by logging onto the DevKit8000 and entering the following command: code $ echo -ne "\033[9;0]\033[14;0]" > /dev/tty1 code Effectively, it sets the screen blank timeout to 0 (i.e. disabled) and the VESA controller power-save timeout to 0. For more information, try