<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">1) Henrik,<br><br>Thanks for your help. Your clarification did the trick. Eureka!<br><br>It seems I wasn't being observant enough. Now I notice that the alarm clock page in the BIOS is clearly marked "APM Configuration".<br><br>I didn't have any reason to suspect that the APM alarm clock settings, which I can set with nvram-wakeup, were different than the ACPI alarm clock settings, which are not shown in the BIOS setup screens. Just to make everything totally confusing, both alarm settings work, under certain circumstances -- but they appear to be mutually exclusive sets of circumstances. Boy does that make my head hurt!<br><br>Now I notice that if I set an alarm value in /proc/acpi/alarm, I can successfully read it back with "cat /proc/acpi/alarm", but ONLY until I reboot. Once
rebooted, at least the date string is bogus, and perhaps the time is bogus under certain undefined circumstances.<br><br>I took Henrik's advice a step further and combined it with hints in the MythTV WIKI page for ACPI Wakeup Troubleshooting. I modified /etc/init.d/halt to read back the alarm setting into a variable, left in the code that posted the system clock to the hardware clock, and then posted the alarm setting back to /proc/acpi/alarm with a tee so it gets echoed out during shutdown. If I am watching the shutdown messages, I can see when the alarm is set to go off and wake the system up. (Another way to check that it got set to a valid date/time -- I'll probably take it back out and just set the alarm eventually.)<br><br>2) Stroller,<br><br>Yes, but it never hurts to double check. In fact, I had resorted to having mythwelcome run shell scripts I wrote so I could check what parameters were being passed and logging everything in logs I
added.<br><br>Now that I have sleep/wake-up working, I can start dismantling all the extra cruft I added and get down to just what's needed to get the job done (while not breaking the working setup!!!).<br><br>Unfortunately, it's too late to get all that done this evening and I'm unlikely to get much time during the week. Hopefully sometime this coming weekend I'll finally have a fully autonomous (meaning no more nurse-maiding) PVR working!!<br><br>Thanks again for your help. I truly was ready to throw in the towel and give up if I couldn't get this working soon.<br><div> </div>Craig Huff<br>huffcs from yahoo<div><br></div></div><br>
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