Letux Kernel

Devices-Overview

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How to control Devices from user space (command line)

Introduction

This page lists the most important devices and drivers that are specific to this board. And how they can be accessed from user space.

Touch Screen

is mapped to

/dev/input/touchscreen

pen down status can be read through

cat /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/gpio157/value

LCD

can be selected by adding defaultdisp="lcd" to the boot args

choose from user space by ???

DVI

can be selected by adding defaultdisp="dvi" to the boot args

S-Video

can be selected by adding defaultdisp="venc" to the boot args

GPS

power on

echo "1" /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/gpio156/value

power off

echo "0" /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/gpio156/value

device file (use 9600 baud)

cat /dev/ttyS2

AUX and Power button