Re: [iPAQ] Getting stowd to survive sleep mode

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:44:39AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > - When I use the power button to go to sleep mode and back, the
> > keyboard no longer works.
>
> I didn't solve this either - but it's only temporary until
> restarting stowd for me.

Thanks for confirming that this works for you -- I tried again
after commenting out the getty line in /etc/inittab, and now it works:
all I have to do after a reboot is kill the stowd process and start a
new one. I was confused by the getty process which I didn't realize
existed before. Also thanks for your kilall: I didn't know about
"pidof" -- very handy.

Now I still wish there was a way to automate this even more. Where
should I look for hints on how the power button is handled? Is it
done in the kernel, in init, in X, or what? Could I specify processes
to run on poweroff/on in inittab using the power controls there?

> > - I haven't been able to put something in the startup scripts to start
> > the stowd daemon. Instead, I start and kill it with a blackbox menu
> > entry, which is kind of annoying.
>
> I use single-letter shell scripts, which I don't find annoying.

How do you run these? Do you type these using the xvkbd program? (I
haven't figured out most of the alphabet using fscrib -- where do I
find hints?)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Received on Wed Sep 19 20:09:58 2001