Kill the CLI frambebuffer

[fredfs]

Hello, I would like to play images and videos, and use negative frambeffer numbers (example, omxplayer --layer '-10')
But the command prompt at frambuffer 0 stays on top of negative buffer.
I dont use the command prompt, how can I kill it, or prevent it from starting at all?

[jojopi]

According to "omxplayer --help", higher layers are on top, so I do not understand what you want -10 to do.

I have never seen the kernel framebuffer above omxplayer. Rather, if the aspect ratio of the video does not match your display, you will see the framebuffer around the edges. "omxplayer -b" solves that.

Changing physical resolution with "tvservice" has the side effect of breaking the kernel framebuffer until it is reinitialized with "fbset".

[fredfs]

How can I kill the tty1 framebuffer or prevent it from starting at all?

[AndyD]

How can I kill the tty1 framebuffer or prevent it from starting at all?

From memory if you use the tvservice command to change the video mode, the framebuffer is destroyed. Have a look at Changing video resolution on the fly?

[dividuum]

The default console layer is -127 or something, so -10 should still result in a visible the omxplayer output. In info-beamer, I basically use this (except written in C):

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echo 1 > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank

This removes the console. You can restore it by writing '0' instead of '1'.

[fredfs]

Omxplayer has a strage behavior when on negative layer (example -10), if there is a tranaprant png layer over it, you dont see omxplayer layer. If omxplayer is on layer zero or above, you can render transparent png over it without problems.
Why?