external keyboard & suspend

[Vinzenz Hersche]

sorry, false information. it's not from pulster, it's from telepixel.

http://dshop.ch/osc/product_info.php?cPath=24_27&products_id=38

it's with a cable and i simply do the device in host-mode to make it working.. 
so your script is useless for me..

thx anyway.. :)

Am Montag, 31. August 2009 19.25:40 schrieb Dan Staley:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Vinzenz Hersche <hersche at puzzle.ch> wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > i've got a keyboard from pulster for the openmoko. this works well with
> > shr-
> > unstable, but there's a problem:
> > i wrote something, then the screen would be black for a half second. so i
> > could wrote again and in one moment, it goes to suspend (in the moment i
> > write).
> >
> > now i don't know if this is a kernel- fso- or shr-problem.. but would be
> > nice
> > if it's fixable..
> >
> > greets
> >
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>
> I'm not sure what kind of keyboard you are using...but I connect my
> freerunner to a bluetooth keyboard (iGo Stowaway bluetooth keyboard) on a
> pretty regular basis in SHR-U.
> To solve the problem you are mentioning, I wrote a little shell script that
> connects to my bluetooth keyboard (or disconnects if I run it a second
> time).
> I run the script using fsoraw to request the Display and Bluetooth
> resources.  This keeps the display from dimming (and consequently the
> auto-suspend from running) as long as I am connected to my keyboard.
>
> You will notice the script sleeps indefinately after it connects.  This
> keeps the Display and Bluetooth resources requested until I run the program
> again, which will kill both instances of it and release the resources.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -Dan
>
>
> run with: fsoraw -r Display,Bluetooth /usr/share/btkb
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "`ps -A | grep btkb | wc -l`"
>
> if [ "`ps -A | grep btkb | wc -l`" = "2" ];
> then
>     echo "connecting..."
>     hciconfig hci0 up
>     sleep 1s
>     if [ "`hidd --search | wc -l`" = "1" ];
>     then
>         echo "No Keyboard found...exiting"
>         hciconfig hci0 down
>         exit 0
>     else
>         echo "Keyboard found and connected!  sleeping..."
>         while true;
>         do
>             sleep 10m
>         done
>     fi
> else
>     echo "killing current process..."
>     killall btkb
> fi