Debian on the FreeRunner -- a few questions/solutions

[Fox Mulder]

Thanks for the hint. This is far more easy to tune the zhone options
than editing the source code and recompiling the whole package. ;)

Ciao,
     Rainer

Eli wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2008 02:06:59 pm Fox Mulder wrote:
>> First of all i must say that i'm quite impressed with debian on the
>> freerunner. It runs quite smooth most of the time and the software
>> choices are realy nice. :)
>>
>> There is a thing what i found out about the matchbox keyboard. The
>> standard layout is quite bad so i tried my customized from 2007.2 which
>> doesn't work at all (i already read about this problem). After a long
>> try and error session i found out why it doesn't work. The matchbox
>> keyboard which comes with debian seems not to get along with the
>> action="modifier:layout" tag. After i found out i removed all
>> alternative layouts and it worked with my nice german layout with f-keys
>> and everithing which is on the keyboard. :)
>> If someone is interested in the german layout with f-keys i attached.
>>
>>
>> Now to the questions i couldn't solve myself until now and i hope
>> somebody has a few hints for me.
>>
>> First thing is that i can't find the setting, when the display dims the
>> brightness. The default setting dims it after some minutes (~3-5 min, i
>> didn't measure it) what is way to late for battery usage. Also it would
>> ne nice to set the maximum brightness and not always maximum (63).
> 
> /etc/frameworkd.conf
> [odeviced.idlenotifier]
> # add inut nodes to ignore for idle activity
> ignoreinput = 2,3,4
> # configure timeouts (in seconds) here. A value of 0
> # means 'never fall into this state' (except programatically)
> idle = 10
> idle_dim = 30
> idle_prelock = 10
> lock = 1
> suspend = 0
> 
> That help?
> 
> Eli
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