Re: problem coming back from blanking the screen

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 13:52:16 +0200
Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...> wrote:

Hi,
> i'm having a problem with screen-blanking. if i set the option
> onAC_TimerAction and/or onBattery_TimerAction to 'blankscreen', pbbuttons
> nicely blanks the screen after the interval i've set. however, it does not
> respond to key presses or mouse movements to unblank the screen. the only
> way to unblank the screen is to press Fn-F1, Fn-F2 (i usually have to press
> them both, in any order).

Most problems of this kind occur due to system configuration problems.
- Have you the module evdev loaded? (lsmod | grep evdev).
- Do you use udev? If not please check that you have enough event device
  nodes in /dev/input.

> since i'm not running the latest version of pbbuttonsd (0.7.8), i
> downloaded 0.8.0 and tried to compile that. it bombed out with the
> following error, however:

There is no reason to update pbbuttonsd if the version 0.7.8 does all you
want it to do.

The compilation error you got was not caused by pbbuttonsd. Something is
missing on your system. Please check that you have the correct kernel
headers installed. Most distributors have a special kernel header package.

> my system:
> iBook G3 800MHz
> Slackintosh 11.0
> Kernel: Linux teuctli 2.6.17.13 #1 PREEMPT Tue Sep 12 18:00:15 CEST 2006 ppc GNU/Linux
> 	(this is the stock Slackintosh kernel)

There's no reason why pbbuttonsd should not run on your system. I think most
problems will be gone after you checked the above configuration issues.

> ps: when you do a google search for pbbuttonsd, the first link points to
> <http://pbbuttons.sourceforge.net/projects/pbbuttonsd/>, which appears to
> be the old homepage. the download section has version 0.7.2 as the
> latest. perhaps it would be a good idea to replace this page with a redirect?

Interesting. Sourceforge _has_ a redirect to pbbuttons.berlios.de. You called
a subpage directly and I didn't redirect only requests on the main page. Anyway,
I should remove the old pages from the server. Thanks for the info.

 Best Regards
  Matthias