-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Westerstr?m wrote: > I've made a small patch for maemo-gpsdrive-0.0.2 to disable the screen > blanking. > So now I can drive long runs (that is more than five minutes :-) without > the need to touch the screen. Not doing so led to loss of gps signal.. > > For files see: > http://westerstrom.com/projects/maemo-gpsdrive Peter, Please post a buzilla report. I understand that Nokia may not have designed the devices for some of the uses that people are experimenting with. This does solve a problem with the device that the designers did not foreseen. If applications like, your unpatched gpsdrive, or an xterm session that is used with a keyboard, then touching the screen every so many minutes becomes impractical. It seems like the patch really belongs in the control panel display applet that governs the both the "Brightness period" and :"Switch off display" time. A larger pick list is required. The applet still needs the small values allowed like 30 seconds, 1, 2, and 5. The list needs to be extended to add all units below 10, then maybe five minute increments to the first hour. The second hour could use 15 minute increments. Perhaps by this point in the pick list hour increments are displayed along with a final unlimited selection. I haven't found out if these values are already extendable in an /etc file somewhere or if it takes a code change. Both of the configurable brightness and switch off values should be extended this way. I think your patch shows a great idea but patching every piece of code that is using a keyboard or app like gpsdrive is the wrong place to patch the device. If these values are configurable in an /etc file, then Nokia can still have a mass market "soccer mom" device and a portable "tech market oriented" device. Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD5Zkoxyxe5L6mr7IRAootAKCViSOWlMFBz/9EXW2fl49/4YyYGACdGQ1n LWsWnDZ92rTcPbXVjqhvjXs= =5IYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
