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what is the defalut behaviour of closing the lid on debian zaurus ?
doest it suspend or does it just shut the screen off ?
where could we set that behaviour ?
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what is the defalut behaviour of closing the lid on debian zaurus ?
doest it suspend or does it just shut the screen off ?
where could we set that behaviour ?
Mine doesn't even seem to shut the screen off, and I have had numerous instances where, carrying the machine in my pocket, something will touch the button and it will wake up, and drain the battery.
I would definitely want a suspend-on-closed option.
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what is the defalut behaviour of closing the lid on debian zaurus ?
doest it suspend or does it just shut the screen off ?
where could we set that behaviour ?
Mine doesn't even seem to shut the screen off, and I have had numerous instances where, carrying the machine in my pocket, something will touch the button and it will wake up, and drain the battery.
I would definitely want a suspend-on-closed option.
definitely!
and (like angstrom) a ask-code-on-resume would be great too in case we loose the Zaurus....
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unfortunatly, for the moment, the "key" for when you're closing the lid isn't mapped... (try xev, and press it, you'll see). it's an issue a friend of mine dealed some years ago with his new keyboard, which had keys that wasn't map either.
I'll check my irclog, and i'll post it there... if someone wants to try, he'll have a begin. Sorry, i don't have the time to do it now myself... If no ones does, maybe i'll check in some weeks.
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If you install zaurusd package, you can set the behaviour of closing the lid. It is very simple.
In /etc/zaurusd/hinge-close.d/00-backlight-off, replace "${ZD_BINDIR}/bl off" with "apm -s" to suspend Z when you close the lid.
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If you install zaurusd package, you can set the behaviour of closing the lid. It is very simple.
In /etc/zaurusd/hinge-close.d/00-backlight-off, replace "${ZD_BINDIR}/bl off" with "apm -s" to suspend Z when you close the lid.
many thanks to point out the direction!
however i have no bl script in /usr/bin
is it tied to display-brightness.sh ?
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ok... pb solved...
make an add in the wiki... then, i'll give it to you guys !
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If you install zaurusd package, you can set the behaviour of closing the lid. It is very simple.
In /etc/zaurusd/hinge-close.d/00-backlight-off, replace "${ZD_BINDIR}/bl off" with "apm -s" to suspend Z when you close the lid.
many thanks to point out the direction!
however i have no bl script in /usr/bin
is it tied to display-brightness.sh ?
The command "bl" is in gpe-conf package. You can turn on or off the screen with bl which is slightly different from display-brightness.sh.
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not sure if this helps, but I hacked up some scripts to blank/dim and unblank/undim the display for Angstrom... some notes here:
http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angst...une/000312.html (http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/angstrom-distro-users/2007-June/000312.html)
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https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=1-For_Debian_EABI (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=1-For_Debian_EABI)
item 8 "closing lid setup"
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Hi, any idea why zaurusd works on icewm but not on xfce4? Is there anything I have to change?
the screen rotates while using icewm as the window manager by swiveling the lid, but when I use xfce4 in the same system it doesn't. any ideas? I have both window managers (icewm and xfce4) installed in eabi in my C3200. I tried both my own from scratch installation as per Q17 on the wiki as well as using the rootfs from Zdevil and I get the same results.
Thanks...
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Hi, any idea why zaurusd works on icewm but not on xfce4? Is there anything I have to change?
the screen rotates while using icewm as the window manager by swiveling the lid, but when I use xfce4 in the same system it doesn't. any ideas?
I had a slightly different reaction. I couldn't get the change in script to take effect, then I realized that zaurusd was not running. When I got it running, it rotated the screen (a second time, since I start the server with the angle set), but the size of windows in each screen seemed to presume the opposite orientation, so it was not usable. I have gotten rid of the screen-rotate settings -- well, using the machine with the "portrait mode" where the keys are hidden is kinda pointless without a virtual keyboard, anyway -- but kept the "closed" settings, so now it automatically suspends when I close the screen --- should help with accidental re-activation, but it doesn't. If you hit the suspend/resume key with the machine suspended, and the lid closed, it starts up and stays up, even with zaurusd running and apm -s the command for when the lid is closed. Close it again and it suspends.
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-- well, using the machine with the "portrait mode" where the keys are hidden is kinda pointless without a virtual keyboard, anyway --
solution for that (virtual keyboard) is here :
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24993 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24993)
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what is the difference between
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
and
apm -s
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is it a low sleep instead of deep sleep ?
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what is the difference between
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
and
apm -s
?
is it a low sleep instead of deep sleep ?
the "echo" line turns off the power to the backlight.. this is separate to the brightness control which has the bug where setting backlight to minimum can cause it to go off - probably a hardware problem and a different setting again!
I put both backlight off and minimum brightness in my screen-close script so that you can leave the Z running in as low power mode as possible yet play mp3s etc.
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what is the difference between
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
and
apm -s
?
is it a low sleep instead of deep sleep ?
the "echo" line turns off the power to the backlight.. this is separate to the brightness control which has the bug where setting backlight to minimum can cause it to go off - probably a hardware problem and a different setting again!
I put both backlight off and minimum brightness in my screen-close script so that you can leave the Z running in as low power mode as possible yet play mp3s etc.
ok
thanks for this great news! i try it right now!
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echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
it seems this is in fact a directory with "wakeup" in it
i guess we should read :
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power/wakeup
i try!
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echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
it seems this is in fact a directory with "wakeup" in it
i guess we should read :
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power/wakeup
i try!
no luck.
there's also a /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/bl_power but i've permission denied trying to echo in it....
any help?
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-- well, using the machine with the "portrait mode" where the keys are hidden is kinda pointless without a virtual keyboard, anyway --
solution for that (virtual keyboard) is here :
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24993 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=24993)
OK, I have it all set up and running correctly, though I did have to install a catalan config file (english was not available....). OK, since I will probably learn some Catalan next Spring anyway, I guess that is good. But weird.
However, every time I re-boot or login, I have to re-start /etc/init.d/zaurusd in order to straighten out the screen. There is some sort of error message on the screen if I kill the X server about Xlib. If I had to guess I would say that I need to run the zaurusd script after the X server starts, but that is not the way it happens.
I could straighten out the server by replacing the angle option on the call to the server --- currently it is exec /usr/bin/Xfbdev -screen 480x640 "$@" but was exec /usr/bin/Xfbdev -screen 480x640@270 "$@" before I re-instituted zaurusd. But this it not available for the xdm screen, and not when I first login, either. I have to start the daemon again, even though it is in /etc/rc2.d
Any clues? Where in the start order is your /etc/rc2.d/S**zaurusd (that is, what goes where the ** is)? Does this all work for someone? In order to get the shifted screen for the closed mode, I need to fix this.
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However, every time I re-boot or login, I have to re-start /etc/init.d/zaurusd in order to straighten out the screen. There is some sort of error message on the screen if I kill the X server about Xlib. If I had to guess I would say that I need to run the zaurusd script after the X server starts, but that is not the way it happens.
yes, i've same problem and when i try to load it after X loads i've some permission problems, although login to X with root...
i'm thinking about replacing our whole /etc/zaurusd directory with the one from latest angstrom...as i run angstrom kernel...
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echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power
it seems this is in fact a directory with "wakeup" in it
i guess we should read :
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/power/wakeup
i try!
no luck.
there's also a /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/bl_power but i've permission denied trying to echo in it....
any help?
the correct command is
echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/brightness
this will turn off the backlight... then when you open the lid again, simply press Fn+4 to increase the bright.
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little problem : when you close the lid outside of X, the screens shut off. but when you open it again it remains dark
any way to correct that ?
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Strange , it's working perfectly on my Z.
(using echo 31 >/sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/brightness in /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-landscape/00-backlight-on and /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-portrait/00-backlight-on )
little problem : when you close the lid outside of X, the screens shut off. but when you open it again it remains dark
any way to correct that ?
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Indeed, on mine too.
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Strange , it's working perfectly on my Z.
(using echo 31 >/sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/brightness in /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-landscape/00-backlight-on and /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-portrait/00-backlight-on )
little problem : when you close the lid outside of X, the screens shut off. but when you open it again it remains dark
any way to correct that ?
yeah yeah, i took the zaurusd directory from angstrom and it apparently needs some tweaking
i'm about to succeed in that
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In addition: zaurusd wasn't starting on my Z while booting, so i did ln -s /etc/init.d/zaurus.d /etc/rc2.d/S31zaurusd
Strange , it's working perfectly on my Z.
(using echo 31 >/sys/class/backlight/corgi-bl/brightness in /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-landscape/00-backlight-on and /etc/zaurus.d/hinge-portrait/00-backlight-on )
little problem : when you close the lid outside of X, the screens shut off. but when you open it again it remains dark
any way to correct that ?
yeah yeah, i took the zaurusd directory from angstrom and it apparently needs some tweaking
i'm about to succeed in that
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apt-get install rcconf
The app allows you to easily set what startup services will run, zaurusd is not usually set to start at boot. I think it runs when X is triggered and closed down when you exit it. I could be wrong though. The app though is very useful.
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Great , been looking for sysv-rc-conf (i'm running sidux on my box)
apt-get install rcconf
The app allows you to easily set what startup services will run, zaurusd is not usually set to start at boot. I think it runs when X is triggered and closed down when you exit it. I could be wrong though. The app though is very useful.
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I have had numerous instances where, carrying the machine in my pocket, something will touch the button and it will wake up, and drain the battery.
yeah, me too. is there any way to poll the hinge switch to see if the lid is closed? then it'd be easy to test on resume and just suspend again