[iPAQ] Re: [Familiar] stowaway coexisiting with QPE/Qtopia? (again..)

On Tuesday 08 January 2002 3:50 pm, Michael Scott Shappe wrote:
> You do not have to redirect the console at all from its default, contrary
> to advice that's been published here, to get the stowaway keyboard to work.
> I've only ever redirected the console for debugging purposes; otherwise, I
> leave it pointed at the serial port. I have yet to have a single problem.
> As long as the line in inittab that runs getty is commented out, it should
> Just Work(tm).

You can make this switchable by using the "levels" of init, for example the
following lines in inittab work on my 3765 with fam 0.5 and qpe

T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttySA0 115200 vt100
ST:4:once:modprobe h3600_stowaway

and then init 4 stops getty and loads the stowaway module
and init 3 restarts getty if required

you need to open the stowaway port before the keyboard will work
cat /dev/stowaway &
works

I'm sure there are more elegant ways of taking this forward, but this works.
I have in mind to write a simple qpe/x utility which would do the init and
cat or equivalent stuff from the menu system; but that requires time!!!!

One day........, in the meantime I'll put up with the above

>
> What I *do* still have issues with is using the keyboard after a
> suspension; but then, *none* of the services that use the usb/serial port
> (including usb ethernet) seem to survive suspension.

This is related to the power status/sequencing of the stowaway. There are
some comments in the stowaway kernel module code which explain why the
stowaway needs the port reopening after suspension.

Bob
>
> /m
>
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 03:26:25PM +0000, D.A.Johnston wrote:
> > The question has been asked several times, but I haven't seen
> > (or found) a working answer:
> >
> > Can a stowaway keyboard be made to co-exist with Qtopia without
> > plastering console messages across the screen on any system events?
> > (removing the console=.. from /boot/params is putting all the stuff
> > on screen instead, suggestions such as console= /dev/null don't work
> > either, and if I'm running Qtopia I can't set up an rxvt as a console...)
> >
> > Setup is Familiar v0.5, Bipolar's QPE feed.
> >
> > Des Johnston
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Tue Jan 8 08:49:48 2002