Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 Instruction Manual page 188

my Zaurus SL-C3000 and SL-C3100
zaurus user
pdaXii13 has a zaurus user to run certain services such as samba, xscreensaver and amule where
security is important, but for most other things, the root user is used. This is a slight security
concern, but better than pdaXrom where everything is run by root.
If that is a concern to you then you can create a new user by using the useradd command and
starting X once you have logged in as that user.
Resume and Suspend
suspend works when invoked from the start menu or when the On/Off button on the front side is
pressed. resume also works just like in Sharp ROM where you need to press the On/Off button
when the Z is suspended. It also appears that the Z does not like to resume unless you had closed
the lid and reopened it. You can cheat by pressing the little nodge at the base of the swivel with
your stylus. You may need to wait ten seconds before the Zaurus resumes.
The hdd led is no longer left on when suspending except when the MicroDrive's filesystem is really
badly corrupted and in need of a manual fsck which happens occasionally if you have not rebooted
the Zaurus for a long time.
In pdaXii13, the sound daemon (esd) has been configured not to respawn which prevents it from
locking up the keys on resume. It is also advisable to add esdctl off into the apm suspend script
and have esdctl on in the corresponding resume script to automatically suspend and resume the
sound daemon. This is already done in pdaXii13 and allows the Zaurus to be suspended while XMMS
is actively playing without locking out the sound device. On resume, XMMS is able to continue
playing. In the extreme case when the sound device does get locked, you can run the fixdsp
command to rectify the problem or reboot the Zaurus.
The blanker applet has also been fixed and can now really enable and disable the DPMS suspend
feature. It also calls the xset-wrapper script which can be used to customise the toggle for
suspend/screensaver behaviour.
Reboot
pdaXii13 has a reboot option in the menu. This is added by creating a reboot.desktop under
/usr/share/applications with the corresponding reboot.png under /usr/share/pixmaps as well as the
Reboot binary under /usr/bin
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