(This is more in the way of archiving than anything else. Maybe it will
save someone a few days of frustration.)
For the last few days I've been fighting a battle to get mplayer playing
nicely on my zaurus.
So I installed mplayer from the ipk, and got a little script going to
transcode my movies for the zaurus.
I ran into some trouble getting mplayer to play within the X11
environment, so I change to vt 1 and play directly on the framebuffer.
This worked fine, except after 10 minutes the screen would go blank.
So I spent lots of time screwing around with ipaq-sleep and apm to no
avail. Disabled both (renamed the binaries and rebooted) and still,
screen would go blank after 10 minutes. Hitting any key would restore
the screen - for another 10 minutes.
After having eliminated everything else, I finally figured out that the
terminal itself is going blank after 10 minutes. A simple echo -e
'\033[9;0]' before I start mplayer cures the problem. GAH!!!
--Yan
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