On 10/31/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:44:36 +0200 > Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a little problem with the sleep functionality in 2.6.12. While > > i am browsing sometimes I see a warning from gtkpbbuttons-gtk that the > > laptop (PowerBook 5,2) will go to sleep (and the counting starts. This > > happens and does not stop when I click the USB mouse attached to the > > laptop, while is stops if I tap the touchpad or press a few keys. > > > > Why is this happening? Does anybody else has this problem? (Notice > > that I almost never shutdown my laptop, but meerly lock it and put it > > to sleep, so it can reach an "uptime" of more than 4-5 days, but I met > > this behaviour even after a day up) > > Do you use udev? If not there might be an event device missing for your
Yes. $ ps -A | grep udev 435 ? 00:00:00 udevd > usb mouse in /dev/input/. With the attached program you could check, if > there is a proper device. (Compile with gcc -Wall -o cev cev.c, run as $ ll /dev/input/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 2005-10-31 08:54 event0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 2005-10-31 08:54 event1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 2005-10-31 08:54 event2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 2005-10-31 08:54 event3 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 68 2005-10-31 08:54 event4 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 69 2005-10-31 08:54 event5 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 71 2005-10-31 08:55 event7 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 72 2005-10-31 18:55 event8 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 2005-10-31 08:54 mice crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 2005-10-31 08:54 mouse0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 2005-10-31 08:54 mouse1 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 2005-10-31 08:54 mouse2 crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 35 2005-10-31 09:51 mouse3 > root because access to the event devices is needed.) > > If no event device is available you have multiple choices: > 1. install and run udev > 2. create missing devices by hand with mknod > > Pbbuttonsd will automatically recognize newly attached devices only if > it was configured with autorescan = yes. See the man page for all > details. Apparently the stock debian pbbuttonsd package does not have that option explicitly set to yes. What is the default value? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
