suspend and scheduled resume

[Fred Schaer]

Hi again,

Just to let you know : I found a very simple way to schedule a wakeup of
the computer :
sudo sh -c 'echo "2007-04-26 20:33:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm'

This works like a charm :)
Cheers !

Fred Schaer a écrit :
> 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 ;)
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> Fred Schaer a écrit :
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>> 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 :
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>>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
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>>>> Fred Schaer wrote:
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>>>>> Hi,
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>>>>> 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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