[mythtv-users] sleep/wake with Jarod's guide

[Kenneth Ljungh]

Boyd II, Willy wrote:

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>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] sleep/wake with Jarod's guide
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>>Op maandag 5 april 2004 20:37, schreef Kenneth Ljungh:
>>
>>>Henk Poley wrote:
>>>
>>>>Op maandag 5 april 2004 19:40, schreef Kenneth Ljungh:
>>>>
>>>>>Myth wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anyone have the sleep/wake function working on FC1 
>>
>>with Axel's 
>>
>>>>>>custom kernel? The electric bill is killing the gaf.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm using nvram wakeup 
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup 
>>
>>>>>on a asus pundit box (running gentoo) and it works great.
>>>>
>>>>Do you also shutdown the box (like I do) or do you use some of the 
>>>>suspend to RAM/Disk stuff? There seems to be some interest 
>>
>>for it on 
>>
>>>>the mailinglist currently, so please share your resources. :-)
>>>
>>>Yes, I have myth run /sbin/poweroff to shut down the box and 
>>>nvram-wakeup to use the cmos clock to power on the box. I also set 
>>>myth to power on 120 secs before recording since the box boots in 
>>>about 1 min.
>>
>>Ehm isn't poweroff a 'hard' thing. Like, it doesn't shutdown 
>>services and the 
>>such? My system runs "/sbin/shutdown -h now".
> 
> 
> At least on my machine, poweroff shuts down services properly.  Only
> difference I've ever seen, is I once had an old machine that wouldn't
> actually "power off" using '/sbin/shutdown -h now'.  Or maybe my problem
> was not using '-h'?  I dunno... since then I just use 'poweroff' and it
> works like a charm.
> 

Funny enough I've had exactly the same experience with an old box and 
been using poweroff instead of shutdown ever since!

> 
> 
>>That boottime is about what I get too, but I never clocked it 
>>after I enabled 
>>the parallel rc stuff genoo has. Edit /etc/conf.d/rc and set 
>>RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes", don't know if it helps anything though. :-P
>>
>>
>>>nvram-wakeup didn't automatically recognise the pundit but 
>>
>>the latest 
>>
>>>release (0.95) do support it so one just have to specify it on the 
>>>command line. Also there was a wake-up-before margin of 5 min in one 
>>>of the .h files that I set 0 zero before compiling.
>>
>>Hehe, I think I have a little advantage that I can read the German 
>>nvram-wakeup forums. There's stated that you can download the 
>>CVS version, or 
>>just the definitions header file, and it would work after a recompile.
>>
>>btw, I think that it might be possible to directly write in UNIX epoch 
>>to /proc/acpi/alarm and have it work, though I never tried 
>>that. Obviously 
>>you would need to have the wake-up feature enabled in the BIOS already 
>>(nvram-wakeup does that for you).
>>
>>	Henk Poley <><
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