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tigran · 06-13-2016, 06:23 AM

It would be really really useful if it was possible to configure the device (while booted in Debian Linux) to ignore the magnetic cover close and open causing sleep and wakeup events.

Imagine this situation: I am right now installing TeX Live 2016 which takes about 3 hours on this device (about 40 times slower than my desktop) and I need to go somewhere. I cannot go --- I have to wait another two hours until the installation completes because if I close the cover and put this computer into my pocket it will go to sleep and the installation will crash. I know, of course, that power management in the kernel is supposed to be transparent to the apps, but this is IN THEORY, whereas in practice it is never transparent and so it is NOT A GOOD IDEA to try to sleep/wakeup while the computer is actively doing something, as it is most likely NOT going to "just resume" it when it wakes up. It will just crash and I will have to restart the installation from the beginning.

So, having a way to ignore the magnetic cover's sleep/wakeup events (temporarily) would be a very good feature.

06-13-2016, 06:23 AM	#93
tigran Zealot Posts: 140 Karma: 23528 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: London Device: Kobo Aura One,HD,H2O,Touch,Mini,Kindle 3+DXG,Nook Simple Touch	How to ignore the magnetic cover sleep/wakeup events? It would be really really useful if it was possible to configure the device (while booted in Debian Linux) to ignore the magnetic cover close and open causing sleep and wakeup events. Imagine this situation: I am right now installing TeX Live 2016 which takes about 3 hours on this device (about 40 times slower than my desktop) and I need to go somewhere. I cannot go --- I have to wait another two hours until the installation completes because if I close the cover and put this computer into my pocket it will go to sleep and the installation will crash. I know, of course, that power management in the kernel is supposed to be transparent to the apps, but this is IN THEORY, whereas in practice it is never transparent and so it is NOT A GOOD IDEA to try to sleep/wakeup while the computer is actively doing something, as it is most likely NOT going to "just resume" it when it wakes up. It will just crash and I will have to restart the installation from the beginning. So, having a way to ignore the magnetic cover's sleep/wakeup events (temporarily) would be a very good feature.