On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:19:29 +0100 Francesco de Virgilio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pardon, I answer myself[1]: the GPS is powered on autoagically on > boot, so... is there a way to default power it off on boot? > > Thanks ;) It IS powered off by default. 'Auto' means that frameworkd will power up the relevant subsystem only if/when something requests the resource. In the case of the GPS, fso-gpsd is not starting up the gps, but is waiting for something to access its 'fake' libgpsd, and when that happens it requests the gps resource from frameworkd, so that it powers up the GPS. Similar with WiFi - until something requests the resource it is completely powered down. (except - like other non-gps resources on the FreeRunner - it doesn't have a special external handler like fso-gpsd, it depends on the resource being properly requested via dbus) The GSM chipset is also handled this way - with SHR, the GSM chipset isn't powered up until something requests it. (like ophonekitd, Paroli, Zhone, etc) But ophonekitd is launched by default when X starts up, so the visible effect is that GSM is powered on automatically when booted. The result is that if you were to disable ophonekitd, you could boot the FR and it would initially conserve maximum power by leaving GPS, GSM, Wifi, and Bluetooth powered down. j _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
