Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-25 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:10 AM, W.Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: [Snippage] /usr/bin/xrandr -o 1 [Snippage] I usually use -o 3 to get the usb connector on top, so I can attach a usb cable to attach to a cigarette lighter... Christ van Willegen

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-25 Thread ANT
the list of known ones is running. [1] - http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/674/avoiding-suspend-and-dim.tar.gz -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/shr--avoid-suspend-and-dim-screen-tp2528525p2533957.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-25 Thread Fernando Martins
W.Kenworthy wrote: Ah! What a relief!! :-) so, mdbus is what I was looking for! Many thanks for the script. Fernando ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread Fernando Martins
Hi, I would like to avoid suspend while using GPS (tangoGPS) but at the same time allow the screen t switch off. I found on the wiki a page about ompower (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Ompower) but the first command, to get a list of the available resources dbus-send --system --print-reply

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
I'm using SHR Unstable, and I never have it suspend automatically just for reasons like this. It still turns off the screen after a while though. What I would like to see is the disabling of screen dimming while (for instance) a game such as MokoMaze is running, which has no screen touching. It's

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread Fernando Martins
Ah! I forgot to tell: I'm using shr unstable from January and the settings UI doesn't work, , so I was looking for a command line instruction to suspend on/off. Unfortunately, suspend off is not sufficient since the battey gets drained too fast, in a couple hours while using GPS. I don't know

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Can you not opkg update opkg upgrade? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread Fernando Martins
The Digital Pioneer wrote: Can you not opkg update opkg upgrade? Actually I don't know what exactly that would lead to: wold I get SHR testing or the current SHR unstable? OTH, my current setup works (mostly) well and recently there were a bunch of people reporting problems with getting a GPS

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
That will just get you latest unstable. I do it frequently, and it all works about as well as can be expected, including GPS. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread Fernando Martins
The Digital Pioneer wrote: That will just get you latest unstable. I do it frequently, and it all works about as well as can be expected, including GPS. Ok, great! Thanks, Fernando ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: shr- avoid suspend and dim screen

2009-03-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
Taken from the replies to a similar post of mine (I think!) some time back. Replace the exec call in the desktop file (/usr/share/applications/tangogps) to this script. The exports work around where tango cant seem to find its home config This is my car script - sets up the FR so I can place it