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Re: Is Squeak usable on Sharp Zaurus SL-5X00: msg#00781

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Subject: Re: Is Squeak usable on Sharp Zaurus SL-5X00

Aaron J Reichow wrote:

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, I wrote:

- Power management is totally lacking. There's currently no way for
Squeak to detect some amount of idle time, nessesary for it is suspend
by itself. You can suspend manually by


There should be a way to talk to the Morphic event system, and when
there's not been a UI event processed for N minutes, execute your manual
suspension line.

I couldn't find it, but admittedly I haven't tried very hard. Also, that of course won't do it for MVC, but that's less of an issue.

On a more general note, Squeak isn't really all that nice from a power point of way: it burns way to many cycles when it should be idle. There has been some discussion about gettimeofday calls and some patches proposed.

- There is no support for the five special keys Zaurus.


It should be doable. Doit "Sensor kbdTest" and press each of these

I think you misunderstand. Currently the VM (actually DirectFB) mapping is wrong/non-existing.

Cheers,

Tommy






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