<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">Antani:<br><br>I have an Asus mobo. If I recall correctly, it is an A8N-SLI Premium unit.<br>As you described, mine, too, has a BIOS dialog for setting the APM alarm and it<br>has an enable/disable control for it. However, the ACPI alarm is apparently<br>separate, so when I set one, I am not setting the other one. The same thing goes for<br>the enable/disable control.<br><br>The mobo works with the APM alarm. Fedora Core 6 wants to use ACPI. I suppose <br>I could get a different Linux distro, or override the defaults to use APM instead, but<br>I perceive that to be a step backwards.<br><br>As far as testing out my scheme for recognizing a "magic" time in order to get the <br>alarm shut off, I have to confess...The honey-do list and the nice weather conspired <br>to keep me from getting
much done on the computer. I did get the modifications into<br>/etc/init.d/halt done, including figuring out how to test for a regex pattern (so I can <br>ignore the year field in the alarm string), but I didn't get a chance to see if my system<br>DIDN'T wake up at midnight GMT (7pm local time).<br><br>Will advise when I find out.<br><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">>Antani said:<br>
>On my asus digimatrix, if I remember well, in the BIOS I have an <br>>option regarding the automatic power on: there I can set the time for <br>>the power up . When I set from linux with /proc/acpi/alarm, I can <br>>check the time in the BIOS. So I assume that the two setups <br>>(/proc/acpi/alarm and the corresponding menu in the BIOS) are related. <br>>I disabled the automatic power on via ACPI for my mythbox, because my <br>>digimatrix don't allow me to specify the date but only the time; then <br>>the mythbox has to wake up every day on the specified time, even if <br>>there is nothing to record. <br> ><br>>Now I'm using my old notebook (24/7) to wake up the mythbox via <br>>WakeOnLan; before the shutdown, the mythbox create on a NFS share (hd <br>>partition of the notebook) a file with the desired date and time for <br>>the wakeup. on the notebook a cron script runs the daemon "at" in <br>>order to check the existence of
that file and, if present, to schedule <br>>the WOL command to wakeup the mythbox. Works flawlessy! <br> <br>>antani </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"></font></font><font size="2"></font><div><font size="2"> </font></div>Craig Huff<br>huffcs from yahoo<div><br></div></div><br>
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