[maemo-developers] SDL, tearing, X overhead and direct framebuffer gfx

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Michael Flaig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry can't say much about the other things...
> 
>> Q: btw - how can I shutdown Maemo Launcher/Hildon/Matchbox/Xomap?
>> Whenever I do one of
>>
>> /etc/init.d/maemo-launcher stop
>> /etc/init.d/x-server stop
>>
>> the device will automatically reboot.
> 
> There is a watchdog in place. I believe you can disable it with the
> flasher utility... 

Never tried but I think it should be possible to stop (almost) 
everything in reverse order without triggering reboot. In this case 
reboot may mean x-server was stopped before stopping other services that 
depend on it. Try to go over /etc/rc2.d/ and stop stuff in reverse order.