suspend and scheduled resume

[Fred Schaer]

Hmmm... answering myself : I found nvram-wakeup that's able to write 
into the bios when the computer should wake up... the only problem is to 
configure it with the mainboard now ;)

Fred Schaer a écrit :
> Well,
>
> Reason I'm asking is that I bought for my girlfriend a windows computer 
> with some TNT TV card (leadtek winfast something) : I know for sure that 
> the card wakes up the computer when using the remote, I guess it's using 
> wake on PCI.
>
> But I was really really really surprised when I try to schedule a 
> recording, then suspend the computer : the beast is waking up a few 
> seconds before the recording starts...
>
> I even tried to "start -> stop the computer" (i.e : motherboard soft 
> off) : the computer also booted alone and started to record...
> I don't know if that's the PCI TV card that's waking up the PC, but 
> that's for sure something cool ;)
>
> I knew of the bios events that allow scheduled wake up, and indeed I'm 
> wondering if these can be programmed from within linux ...
>
> Derek Broughton a écrit :
>   
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>> Fred Schaer wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to know if there's a way to schedule when my (edgy) computer
>>>> wakes up -once I have suspend working- ...?
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>>> I believe this is by definition impossible, since the computer is not
>>> supposed to do anything during suspend, except listen for user input.
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>>>       
>> Whether it is, in practice, possible, I couldn't say, but in theory it
>> shouldn't be.  Some PC's have wake-on-lan or wake-on-schedule, which are
>> BIOS events and should be able to generate the correct ACPI event to cause
>> a wake-from-suspend.
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