[ubuntu-in] ubuntu lullaby timer

[Vivek Khurana]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Linux Lingam <linuxlingam at gmail.com> wrote:
> dear all,
>
> i'd love to drift to sleep listening to some audio or music playing via
> mplayer on my ubuntu 9.04,
> but obviously, once asleep, don't want to get up to quit mplayer and
> shutdown the laptop.
> likewise, i'd also love to wake up to mplayer after the laptop autoboots
> into ubuntu.
>
> any way of doing this automagically?
>
> the first may be easy, but the second a tad difficult
> as my laptop uses rEFIT on the macbookpro.

Dont know about macworld but in PC it is possible... You can shutdown
the the PC at a specific time and then use ACPI's Real Time Clock
(RTC) to wake up the machine at a specific time. Wake is possible in
all linux kernels from 2.6.22 onwards. Th generic instructions to
configure wakeup are available in
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup (though instructions are for
mythTV, but work on generic linux distros too)
 An alarm is always easier to configure :)

regards
Vivek

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