Hi all.
Recently installed Leopard on a 2006 iMac, set the screen to sleep after 35 minutes. Now after approx 10 minutes of idleness my Belkin Bluetooth keyboard disconnects - this seems to be a keyboard power-saving feature, and is also what happened under Tiger. However, with Leopard, it then usually immediately reconnects, resetting the sleep idle timer. This repeats every 10 minutes, so the screen never gets a chance to sleep.
What's more, even if I set the screen sleep time to 2 minutes, it will go to sleep 2 minutes after I've stopped using the keyboard, but not 2 minutes after the keyboard disconnects. To restart the idle timer, it seems I must actually use the keyboard.
I have two questions:
1) Can the Bluetooth system be made less aggressive about trying to maintain connections? so when the keyboard, I assume, announces that it's disconnecting, Leopard does not reply "oh no you don't!"
2) Can I configure energy-saving to not regard a Bluetooth connect or disconnect as something that should reset, let alone completely stop, the idle timer? I see from this support article that resetting the timer is a known issue, but no mention of it stopping entirely.
Tried Bluetooth device discoverability on and off. Tried with a Bluetooth mouse (Logitech V270) that disconnects after 30 minutes idle and doesn't seem to reconnect immediately; sleep never happens after that first disconnect, unless I use keyboard/mouse in between.
Thanks for any thoughts. I hope Apple bring out the 10.5 Darwin source soon, as it's just this kind of issue it's useful for.
Recently installed Leopard on a 2006 iMac, set the screen to sleep after 35 minutes. Now after approx 10 minutes of idleness my Belkin Bluetooth keyboard disconnects - this seems to be a keyboard power-saving feature, and is also what happened under Tiger. However, with Leopard, it then usually immediately reconnects, resetting the sleep idle timer. This repeats every 10 minutes, so the screen never gets a chance to sleep.
What's more, even if I set the screen sleep time to 2 minutes, it will go to sleep 2 minutes after I've stopped using the keyboard, but not 2 minutes after the keyboard disconnects. To restart the idle timer, it seems I must actually use the keyboard.
I have two questions:
1) Can the Bluetooth system be made less aggressive about trying to maintain connections? so when the keyboard, I assume, announces that it's disconnecting, Leopard does not reply "oh no you don't!"
2) Can I configure energy-saving to not regard a Bluetooth connect or disconnect as something that should reset, let alone completely stop, the idle timer? I see from this support article that resetting the timer is a known issue, but no mention of it stopping entirely.
Tried Bluetooth device discoverability on and off. Tried with a Bluetooth mouse (Logitech V270) that disconnects after 30 minutes idle and doesn't seem to reconnect immediately; sleep never happens after that first disconnect, unless I use keyboard/mouse in between.
Thanks for any thoughts. I hope Apple bring out the 10.5 Darwin source soon, as it's just this kind of issue it's useful for.