Re: wakeup

I've heard from others that atd has this "sometimes doesn't work" problem.
The package you would want to install to use ipaqalarm/uschedule with opie is
called qpe2uschedule. Make sure you uninstall atd and kill off any remaining
atd processes (or just reboot).

Benjamin Long

On Friday 22 February 2002 10:23, Max Weninger wrote:
> Hi
>
> > From: Matthew Hixson <hixson@poindextrose.org>
> > To: opie@handhelds.org
> > Subject: [Opie] calendar events sometimes wake up the Ipaq
> >
> > When I enter an event into the calendar application the Ipaq will wake up
> > and sound its alarm sometimes, but most of the time it does not. In the
> > case where the alarm does not sound at the designated time it will beep
> > and display the reminder as soon as I turn the Ipaq on. I can't seem to
> > find what it is that makes the Ipaq wake up and sound its alarm for some
> > events, but not others.
> > Is this a known problem? Any workarounds or fixes that will always
> > make events wake up the machine?
>
> Does it happen when the events are over midnight?
> I have read about such problems with at on the Familiar mailing list.
>
> There is a package ipaqalarm which uses uschedule instead of at.
> Never tried it but read in the docu that they can handle this midnight
> "problem"
>
> Or does anybody else on this list ever tried it?
>
> Regards
>
> Max
Received on Fri Feb 22 09:13:31 2002