pbbuttonsd + NOT sleep on top cover closedown

spitzwegerich

hello!

i use pbbuttonsd with my ibook 800 and are very happy with it.

there is only one thing:
is it possible to prevent pbbuttonsd from sleeping my ibook when i close down the top cover?

thanks,

~michael

stimuli · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 6:33 pm Post subject:

the first line in your /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf should be changed. Mind you, if your want to war-walk, simply /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd stop first.

BEWARE: You can seriously fuXxor your iBook leaving it closed for an extended period of time. Heat dissipates through the keyboard!!! You can melt your keys, fuxXor your screen, overheat your internal components. Do NOT leave your iBook closed for a long time!

spitzwegerich · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject:

here is the beginning of pbbuttonsd.conf:

stimuli · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject:

Y'know, I had a problem where one of my powerbooks wouldn't sleep when I shut the lid. I forget how I resolved that(!). It was some combination of on_AC* options and took me ages to solve.

Yeah, I've seen some scary pictures of iBooks that had melted, popped-off keys, etc. Totally toasted.

For short runs (ie half an hour), you might try just stopping /etc/init.d/pbbuttonsd

chriskwan · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject:

nothing bad will happen if you leave your computer closed for too long. I always leave my TiBook closed and running during compiles, and the Ti gets much hotter than the iBook.
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oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

I doubt pbbuttonsd has anything to do with it, but rather pmud.
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gordin · Guru Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 300 Location: Germany/WI

Hi,

it seems that pbbuttonsd can not only turn off the screen when the lid is closed.
I use pmud and pbbuttonsd together to do this (pmud only turns off the screen when the lid is closed with option -k).
Use the -K (uppercase) option to suspend your ibook when not on AC. Howerver, you have to access your F-Keys with the fn-Button then, because both pmud and pbbuttonsd trie to controll them. pmud cannot access the dim and volume buttons with the fn-key. On suspend it seems sometimes pmud and sometimes pbbuttonsd controls it (setting replace_pmud=no doesn't help). Then on wakeup sometimes you have to use the fn-Key and sometimes not.
When using -k (lowercase) you can only suspend the ibook with the powerbutton which is controlled by pbbuttonsd.

chriskwan · Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject:

if you use GNOME-2.x, you can stop using pbbuttons altogether, and use ACME / pmud instead. It works out nicely for me, especially because i compiled "support for LCD brightness control" (or something similar) into my kernel.
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thirteen · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 39

If you aren't that happy with pbbuttonsd you could try this:

http://www.stampflee.com/evkeyd/

Not sure as to what it is like but you could give it a go, if it works could you post back as would be interested.

liryon · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Boston, MA

I recently upgraded to a 2.6 kernel on my pismo and was sadened to discover that pmud does not work with it, and that they are aparently no plans to get it to work. I was a very big fan of how pmud could leave the comp running and only power off the screen when the lid was closed but still connected to AC power. The stable version of pbbuttonsd in portage (0.5.2-r1) as has been said, simply does not support this nifty feature. However, a newer version of pbbuttonsd (0.5.8) does support this feature. So there really is no need to even have pmud installed.

To install pbbuttonsd-0.5.8 which is masked in portage but has worked well for me