Re: SystemIdleTimerReset() question

Open the named event "PowerManager/ActivityTimer/UserActivity" and set it whenever you want to transition to "on" and turn the backlight on programmatically.

; This registry setting tells GWES to signal the Power Manager
; when user input devices are active. GWES will reset this activity timer
; whenever it dequeues any type of input event (keyboard, mouse, or
; touch) from its internal queue.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE]
"ActivityEvent"="PowerManager/ActivityTimer/UserActivity"


Note that this same question was answered just a couple of days ago by me, I'm just repeating myself. Next time please first search the NG's before asking a question (use google groups search for instance).

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Dean Ramsier wrote:
Also, backlight depends on BSP implementation. There is no standard backlight driver model so it's easy for backlight to be implemented differently on different platforms.

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