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Re: pbbuttonsd beta on new Powerbook5,8



On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 23:09 +0100, Mich Lanners wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For those who didn't notice, pbbuttonsd just got support for the backlit
> keyboard of the new Powerbooks (post-October 2005).
> 
> For me it works fine :-)
> 
> However, I have another problem: it seems that pbbuttonsd can't detect
> activity.
> 
> While typing, a short while after resuming from sleep, the display is
> dimmed down to level 1. Another while later, if I don't stop pbbuttonsd
> in the mean time, it puts the machine to sleep. All this while I'm
> typing....
> 
> Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Any fixes available?

I had this problem with some kernels (I think 2.6.14 had the issue)
and/or udev version problems (check that you have the
various /dev/input/ entries, events mouse and kbd, I think it was
missing some of the events devices)

Ben.




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