Debian avr evtd

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Revision as of 09:14, 22 June 2006

Why you should not use kuroevtd

kuroevtd is old and is not working well ! Most people can't switch off their kurobox by pressing the power button, and it's kuroevtd's fault ;) kuroevtd's author didn't stopped his project, he just renamed it to avr_evtd as it can runs on the kurobox, but also on linkstation devices !

Install avr_evtd

• Download avr_evtd from this page : https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=167880&package_id=190867
• de-tar the file (was called avr_evtd020606.tar.bz2 when writing this guide)

tar xjf avr_evtd020606.tar.bz2 && cd avr_evtd/usr/src/avr_evtd

• Build the file

make avr_evtd

• Install the file

make install

• Make avr_evtd running at startup and stoping at shutdown

cd /etc/rc0.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd K20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc1.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd K20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc2.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd S20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc3.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd K20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc4.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd S20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc5.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd S20avr_evtd
cd /etc/rc6.d/ && ln -s ../init.d/avr_evtd K20avr_evtd

• Edit the start script to allow avr_evtd to run without udev installed

nano /etc/init.d/avr_evtd

and replace

cat /proc/tty/driver/serial | grep 80004500 | grep -q 0: && DEVICE=/dev/ttyS0 || DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1 uname -m | grep -q mips && MIPS=YES

with

if [ -e /dev/AVR00 ]; then
  DEVICE=/dev/AVR00
else
  cat /proc/tty/driver/serial | grep 80004500 | grep -q 0: && DEVICE=/dev/ttyS0 || DEVICE=/dev/ttyS1 uname -m | grep -q mips && MIPS=YES
fi

Remove kuroevtd

To avoid conflict between 2 applications that have the same goal, you need to remove kuroevtd :

• remove script file

rm /etc/init.d/kuroevtd 

• remove start/stop symlinks

rm /etc/rc?.d/K20kuroevtd /etc/rc?.d/S20kuroevtd

• remove configuration files

rm -r /etc/kuroevtd

• remove application

rm /usr/sbin/kuroevtd

Conclusion

Now your power button can be used normaly (yeah !) You can also edit /etc/avr_evtd/EventScript file to assign different actions for a button (sending a message to a network device before shutting down for example, running a backup script when pressing the red button ...) !

--Sylver 14:59, 14 June 2006 (CDT)