[maemo-developers] x11vnc no response to taps on left of screen

[From: Jeffrey Barish]

On Monday 09 April 2007 23:40:13 Kalle Valo wrote:
> "ext Jeffrey Barish" <jeff_barish at earthlink.net> writes:
> > Also, the N800 has an annoying habit of dropping the WiFi connection
> > because it is not detecting any taps on the screen.
>
> We don't have such functionality at all. We do have idle timer which
> disconnects the connection after a specified timeout if there's no
> traffic. But if I recall correctly, it should be disabled for WLAN by
> default

I presume you are referring to the setting in Connection manager to which 
Visti Andresen referred me earlier in this thread.  The WLAN idle time is set 
to Unlimited.

> You must be seeing something else. What AP are you using and what are
> it's settings?

What is an AP?

> And what do you mean by dropping? Does UI inform that connection is
> disconnected or is the WLAN connections just "jammed", ie. no data is
> transfered?

I confess that yesterday I myself began to suspect it was something else.  I 
went away for a few hours and found on my return that both the VNC and ssh 
connections were still fine even though the N800 appeared to be sleeping 
soundly.  However, this morning I found that the VNC viewer had lost its 
connection.  I did not leave ssh connected, but attempts to connect were 
refused.  I also got no response to a ping.  To reestablish the VNC 
connection, I had to restart x11vnc because of its annoying habit of 
terminating when it loses its connection.  I'm not sure what I did to make it 
possible for ssh to connect again, but once I started using the N800, it 
mysteriously became possible both to connect by ssh and to ping.  (And the IP 
number did not change even though I am using DHCP.)  I have no idea what 
happened last night to terminate connections that did not happen during my 
afternoon break.  I will collect more data.  Perhaps others have had similar 
experiences that would shed light on the issue.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish