Last weekend I installed MythWelcom on my Fedora Core 4 / Jarod wilson setup. My MSI K3 Ultra motherboard has /proc/acpi/alarm available. If I overwrite it like you did the machine does start up but when it has started it does not show the time I set manually when I do a cat /proc/acpi/alarm. It shows the wake up time found in the bios menu.
<br><br>The only problem I have is that due to this 'bug' MythWelcome cannot see that the machine started automatically or manually, so it always thinks it has been started manually and waits for the Frontend to be used before it allows you to shutdown.
<br><br>So in mythtv-setup I disabled the option to wait for a client to be started, but I increased the time to shutdown all backends from 5 seconds to 600 seconds. Otherwise you didn't have time to start the Frontend, because it immediately did a shutdown.
<br>(If you are running Fedora and you have this loop problem, use the interactive startup mode and do not start the mythbackend service ,this will cause mythwelcome/mythshutdown to not shut down your machine immediately).
<br><br>If I were you I would double check if your machine really doesn't wakeup when you manually updated the /proc/acpi/alarm.<br>Also check out the fussy bios issues at <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup</a><br><br>For me it helped alot to write all /proc/acpi/alarm actions to a /home/mythtv/alarm.log log file by using >> instead of > so I can see whenever the system shuts down and which values it used. I log the actions from the halt script and the actions in my settime script for MythWelcome.
<br><br>Martijn<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Bickford</b> <<a href="mailto:bic1ster@gmail.com">bic1ster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am having a strange problem with setting the alarm on a Biostar M7NCD (nForce 2 / Award bios) on Fedora 5 (MythDora distribution).<br><br>I can echo a date out to /proc/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">acpi</span>/alarm ok. I can then cat and it looks fine.
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<br>However, when the system shuts down it doesn't wake up. When I start it manually, I see the date is "2006-00-00 09:58:00". I thought the problem was related to the Fedora 6 issue on <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup</a> during halt to reset the clock. So I put that in the halt script:<br><br><pre>==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">acpi</span>/alarm`<br><br>
[ -x /sbin/hwclock ] && action $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock $CLOCKFLAGS<br><br> <br>==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">
acpi</span>/alarm</pre><br>I added a cat /proc/<span id="st" name="st" class="st">acpi</span>/alarm > /home/mythtv/alarm to verify it reset it ok. It does show that:<br><br>Syncing hardware clock to system time [ OK ]
<br>2006-12-09 09:58:00<br><br>But after booting manually, it shows date as 2006-00-00 09:58:00. Any ideas what I could try?<br><br><br><br>
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