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Peter Koek
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22 Oct 2007 22:52:08 UTC
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    I have configured boinc to run only when idle. This setting works when you are using the keyboard, boinc processing is suspended if the keyboard is used. However when only the mouse is used this settings is ignored, and boinc processing will continue.

    System: Fedora 7 with kernel 2.6.23.1

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    boinc does not idle with mouse movement

    23 Oct 2007 10:57:51 UTC
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      What version of BOINC?

      Kathryn :o)

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      Peter Koek
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      Version:

      23 Oct 2007 12:00:19 UTC
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        Version: boinc_5.10.21_i686-pc-linux-gnu (downloaded it yesterday)

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        You are very right. I have

        24 Oct 2007 10:31:41 UTC
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          You are very right.

          I have no idea if it's been reported to the alpha list. But I'll send an email later this evening.

          I'm also on 5.10.21 and Fedora (no idea what the kernel version is, but it's Fedora 7)

          Kathryn :o)

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          I might be wrong but I

          24 Oct 2007 15:49:35 UTC
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            I might be wrong but I faintly remember having seen a bug ticket for this issue, I think it was even filed by Bruce Allen.

            CU

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            RE: You are very right. I

            24 Oct 2007 16:32:44 UTC
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              Quote:

              You are very right.

              I have no idea if it's been reported to the alpha list. But I'll send an email later this evening.

              I'm also on 5.10.21 and Fedora (no idea what the kernel version is, but it's Fedora 7)


              uname -r
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              RE: I might be wrong but I

              24 Oct 2007 17:29:28 UTC
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                Quote:
                I might be wrong but I faintly remember having seen a bug ticket for this issue, I think it was even filed by Bruce Allen.


                ticket 71 and 359

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                A possible fix got checked in

                24 Oct 2007 23:01:03 UTC
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                  A possible fix got checked in for this.

                  From David's email back to the alpha list:

                  Quote:

                  The code had something like this:

                  #ifdef HAVE__DEV_KBD
                  if (!device_idle(idle_time, "/dev/kbd")) return false;
                  #endif

                  and similar for mouse.
                  This is fatally flawed because our build machine doesn't have
                  /dev/kbd or /dev/mouse, so these weren't even being compiled in.

                  I fixed this. However, it seems like it may not fix the problem,
                  if Linux has switched to /dev/input/mice or something like that.
                  Does anyone have up-to-date info about this?

                  Kathryn :o)

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                  RE: RE: You are very

                  24 Oct 2007 23:03:06 UTC
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                    Quote:
                    Quote:

                    You are very right.

                    I have no idea if it's been reported to the alpha list. But I'll send an email later this evening.

                    I'm also on 5.10.21 and Fedora (no idea what the kernel version is, but it's Fedora 7)


                    uname -r
                    Tullio

                    Thanks Tullio.

                    I looked at the man page for uname and also added it to my personal notebook.

                    Kathryn :o)

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                    I don't have /dev/kbd, and

                    25 Oct 2007 21:19:32 UTC
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                      I don't have /dev/kbd, and /dev/mouse. I do have /dev/input/mice, and /dev/input/mouse0

                      I don't know if the following is usefull? But in the folder /dev/input/by-path the folowing is listed:

                      lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-10-25 22:51 platform-i8042-serio-0-event-kbd -> ../event0
                      lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-10-25 22:51 platform-i8042-serio-1-event-mouse -> ../event1
                      lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2007-10-25 22:51 platform-i8042-serio-1-mouse -> ../mouse0

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