Two laptop questions.

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Two laptop questions.
started by: gcain

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Posted by gcain on Jan. 01 2006,21:20

Hi Guys,

I just remastered a DSL LiveCD to perform a specific task. Everything works great except for two problems.

How do I stop the LCD from turning off after about 30 minutes? And how can I get rid of the mouse pointer that sits in the middle of the screen?

I'm using a hacked Laptop that has no keyboard or mouse attached to it.

Thanks to all in advance!  

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Posted by clivesay on Jan. 02 2006,00:44

search the forum for 'picture AND frame' or 'pictureframe'. There are a few people who have outlined how to do the things you are asking about.

Chris

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Posted by gcain on Jan. 02 2006,23:15

Thanks Chris!

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Posted by mshilly on Jan. 31 2006,21:24

You should be able to turn off power management functions in your BIOS setup (yeah, you will have to plug in a keyboard).

I use unclutter to remove the cursor.  On a seperate machine get the debian package and use the deb2dsl script to generate an unclutter.dsl tarball.

I am using DSL with xv/unclutter to do digital picture frames.  I am working on #6 currently.  With all but the last one I have been able to run from a LiveCD or Frugal from a IDE Flash drive.  Since xv is a memory hog, and my current project machine only has 32MB ram, I have to run Frugal off a Harddrive with swap space.

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