RE: power button and suspend/resume behavior

The suspend button implements the same behavior as PocketPC: a long push
toggles the frontlight, a short push suspends/resumes.

2.4.16 had a problem with turning on the frontlight after resume
regardless of its state before suspend, but this has been fixed.
Packages are in the 2.4.16 feed on lorien. I'll push them into the
unstable feed today.

The other issue: screen saver getting disabled will require some more
kernel support so that the resume scripts can be notified what kind of
resume it was -- timer or user -- and act accordingly.

Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Ristuccia [mailto:brianr@osiris.978.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 1:31 AM
> To: familiar@handhelds.org
> Subject: [Familiar] power button and suspend/resume behavior
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm having some difficulty with the current power button and suspend /
> resume behavior in Familiar 0.5.
>
> Currently, when the ipaq resumes to process an at or cron job, the X
> screensaver gets disabled. This is particularly annoying for
> applications
> that want to briefly wake up the ipaq to check email and then
> put it back to
> sleep if there is none. Instead of consuming only a few mw of power,
> hundreds more are consumed by the lcd, touchscreen, and sidelight.
>
> Also, the current power button behavior is not correct when
> the screensaver
> is on. Optimally, pressing the power button while the
> screensaver was active
> would simply disable the screensaver. Instead, the ipaq is
> suspended when
> the power button is pressed while the screensaver is on. This
> would cause
> confusion if the ipaq was awake but screensaving due to a non
> power-button
> resume event such as an at or cron job, since the power
> button would need to
> be pressed twice.
>
> Is anyone else working on sane power button handling and
> automated resume
> support for familiar, or should I start my own work in this area?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Brian Ristuccia
> brian@ristuccia.com
> bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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Received on Thu Dec 13 04:59:33 2001