This is a bug in pgserver, it seems. The backlight timer uses the same
code as the cursor hide timer, and I've noticed a similar problem with it.
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:47:47PM +0100, Thierry Th?voz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to bring our old backlight timeout back to life.
>
> To toggle the backlight, I'm launching pgserver with a specific option :
> pgserver --timers.backlightoff=100
> (this should be a 10 sec timeout).
>
> Now, in the fbdev.c framebuffer file, I catch the driver messages :
> - PGDM_BACKLIGHT=0 (turn off)
> - PGDM_POWER=PG_POWER_FULL (turn on)
> and I do an ioctl on the lowlevel framebuffer driver accordingly.
>
> Trouble is, when I start up pgserver :
> 1. I immediately get a PGDM_BACKLIGHT event. Not even waiting for the
>timeout to occur.
> 2. I correctly get the PGDM_POWER events, but no more any PGDM_BACKLIGHT
>timeout event, even after being idle for a lng time.
>
> Is the backlight timeout not supported anymore?
> Any idea before I dig further into the timers?
>
> I thanks you in advance!
> Thierry
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