Vikas Saurabh wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0200, Oscar Casamitjana wrote: >> > > screenfp = fopen >> ("/sys/class/backlight/pcf50633-bl/brightness","w"); >> > >> > Excellent idea, I'll implement it in my newRotate and make a new >> > release. >> > >> > BTW, I still can't commit... >> > >> > https://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1563 >> >> OK, new newrotate version, taking usage of brightness to use less energy >> and a nicer rotation. >> >> http://blog.1407.org/2008/10/14/openmoko-newrotate-checks-brightness/ >> >> Rui > > This seems pretty stable than the previous one. The brightness effect is > nice, but the event, apparently, is hitting even if the phone is moved a > little (i was trying to type a message). > The brightness thing started to feel too much pain, so I killed the > rotate instance (from a separated ssh session). Unfortunately, the > program had thought that I am rotating and hence had brightness set to 0 > when I killed it. So, I was left with a switched off screen :). > > So, 2 cents from my side > (1) The brightness effect (and rotation) should be applied only we are > switching orientation (I am not too sure if accels would give that data > directly....but keeping a state can be a workaround...it would give some > false positives and negative, but would have a better output) > (2) We might like to put a close program handler which would try to > reset the brightness to the last read brightness value (if the rotation > was in progress while the program was closed)
I can't say other than agreeing! Those are the two missing things. -- Treviño's World - Life and Linux http://www.3v1n0.net/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
