Linux users of Sony Z1 series

[Brouard Nicolas <>]

Le dimanche 21 novembre 2004 à 13:24 +0100, Andre Roth a écrit :
> > it's working!! rouuhaa.. :)
> congrats :)
> 
> > juste my last problem :p ... presently ... tty is not under framebuffer 
> > (1400x1050) and it's horrible to read it! .. how may i do to have 
> > 1400x1050 resolution under my console?
> 
> no, suspend with  framebuffer is a bit hard to do. read 
> Documentation/power/video.txt in your kernel tree. 
> 
> > and ... somebody have a script to suspend and resume ? thanks !
> 
> yes, it's a very quick hack, so maybe better solutions exists...
> 
> you  need to have the sonypid-1.9.1 utility installed. 
> then I have a script /etc/init.d/sonysleep.sh which is started 
> automatically at boot time. For this you need a link
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 Nov 11 21:02 /etc/rc2.d/S99sonysleep -> 
> ../init.d/sonysleep.sh
> (ok, the script lacks handling to start and stop parameter)
> 
> this script starts the sonypid deamon  and pipes the output to another 
> script, /usr/local/bin/sleep.sh which greps for the right key combination 
> and suspends the laptop. 
> 
> any improvements are welcome :-)

Sonyxosd of Stuart is the most recent and most customizable script. Yes,
it requires some perl library. I made a Mandrake rpm and updated it in
order to assign Fn_Esc to susptoram which is a nice idea.

But if people like simplifications of code versus lack of confort,
sonypid is even not necessary and you can replace it by dd (not fully
tested!)

sonysleep.sh:
#!/bin/bash
dd if=/dev/sonypi bs=1 cbs=1 conv=unblock | /usr/local/bin/sleepsony.sh

sleepsony.sh
#!/bin/bash

Fn_Esc=$'\013'
while true
do
  read i
  if [ "$i" = "$Fn_Esc"  ]; then
    echo "FnEsc pressed"
    echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
  elif [ $i = ")" ]; then
    echo "Fn pressed"
done

I used dd to test if the sonypi resumed well with latest patches from
Setlian Pop. And it works fine on 2.6.9 (and 2.6.10) but on 2.6.8 I got
a null character before the correct character: ^@) instead of ) for
Fn_release.
But sonypid doesn't care of this parasite null character. So, use
sonypid and not dd at least on 2.6.8 with a patched sonypi module.

Nicolas


> salutations
>  andré
> 

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