ipac ultimate question

[dkersten]

Two questions:

First, when my computer goes to sleep, it disables the iPac.. So I can't wake it with any control on there, and even when I set windows to not selectively disable USB ports while in sleep mode, it shuts down.  Anyone find a way to get around this?  I really hate having to open the keyboard drawer to push a button to get the computer to come out of sleep mode..  But then I don't want the LED's all lit up 100% of the time either, I actually want it to go to sleep after 30 or 60 minutes of non-use.

Furthermore, when it wakes up, I have had less than consistent results with the ipac.  Half the time some part of it will no longer function until I reboot.  I have even had where the mouse controls (ie trackball and spinner) work, but the mouse clicks and other buttons don't.

Second question:  If I have an animation running for the LED's, all functions of the iPac seem to get either super slow or just stop working altogether.  While the animation is going it is hit or miss if the right buttons will light up when I select a game, and while the animation is going the trackball and spinner are SUPER slow, and if I launch a game while the animation is going, it sometimes takes 30 or 45 seconds for the game to start.  This is all with the MaLa front end.  If I turn off the animation everything is snappy and fast.. Anyone else running into this?

[yotsuya]

Two questions:

First, when my computer goes to sleep, it disables the iPac.. So I can't wake it with any control on there, and even when I set windows to not selectively disable USB ports while in sleep mode, it shuts down.  Anyone find a way to get around this?  I really hate having to open the keyboard drawer to push a button to get the computer to come out of sleep mode..  But then I don't want the LED's all lit up 100% of the time either, I actually want it to go to sleep after 30 or 60 minutes of non-use.

Furthermore, when it wakes up, I have had less than consistent results with the ipac.  Half the time some part of it will no longer function until I reboot.  I have even had where the mouse controls (ie trackball and spinner) work, but the mouse clicks and other buttons don't.

Second question:  If I have an animation running for the LED's, all functions of the iPac seem to get either super slow or just stop working altogether.  While the animation is going it is hit or miss if the right buttons will light up when I select a game, and while the animation is going the trackball and spinner are SUPER slow, and if I launch a game while the animation is going, it sometimes takes 30 or 45 seconds for the game to start.  This is all with the MaLa front end.  If I turn off the animation everything is snappy and fast.. Anyone else running into this?

I don't use sleep mode, so I can't help you. But if you find a fix, post it here.

[JDFan]

I don't use sleep mode, so I can't help you. But if you find a fix, post it here.

And that is probably the easiest solution --- just disable sleep mode the energy savings by using it is minimal - The only power saving mode I use is to have the monitor shut down after 1 hour.

[yotsuya]

I use an arcade button on the back of my cab to turn on/off my MAME cab, but when it's off, I switch the power to it off on the outlet panel that I have.

[dkersten]

I can't find a way to shut off the LED animation in LEDblinky after a half hour or hour or something, so if the PC doesn't go to sleep, the LED's are on non stop, which I don't want.

The second problem I have (the animation slowing things down) can be solved by just making a 1 frame animation.. I would lose the cool effect of the trackball changing colors constantly, but it would solve a lot of problems.

But I at least want all the unused buttons to be lit while in MaLa, only to change when you start moving through games, at which time it changes the colors of all buttons to be what the game should have, then reverts back to the animation.  When you launch the game the animation ends and the buttons change to what the game calls for.  But if the cab is idle, I want it to stay on the "default" colors for at least 30-60 minutes, and then shut off.

I am not worried about power savings, but I don't want the lights on all the time..  Plus if the machine is idle for 2 or 3 days or a week, not having fans turning will save on the life or at least keep me from having to do maintenance more often..

I will keep working on it.. there should be a way I can shut the LED part down after a period but not shut the whole board down..