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List:       zaurus-general
Subject:    Re: [Zaurus-general] Screen input lost and then found again
From:       Kyle Davenport <kdd () tvmax ! net>
Date:       2003-06-29 5:11:15
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Ian Giblin wrote:

>
> Hi, I had a weird thing happen this week. After powering on my 
> (perfectly standard retail) SL-5600 yesterday I found that the screen 
> was unresponsive to clicks. I could navigate using the buttons but not 
> click or tap anywhere on the screen. I was about to send it back to 
> Sharp because I thought it was broken.
>
> I reformatted the internal memory from the maintenance menu 
> (OK-PowerOn) with no improvement.
>
> Then I thought I might use VNC to access the Zaurus for the weekend 
> and send it back next week. I had been running the VNC server 0.9.4 
> before the screen died, but it was lost (obviously) when I 
> reformatted. So I reinstalled it and used the VNC client a bit, and 
> after this the Zaurus screen started working perfectly again.
>
> Is this a VNC problem or just coincidence? Surely reformatting the 
> Zaurus should have fixed it?
>
The symptoms you describe could have been caused by the vnc process 
tssimd dying. (At least, it's happened to me)   It's normally installed 
to start automatically at boot time, so one would think a simple reboot 
would have fixed it.

Kyle

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Kyle Davenport - unix sys admin consultant - Dallas TX
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