[mythtv-users] RTC & RTCWake problem

[PJR]

The BIOS is AMI not Award.




On 24/11/11 12:36, PJR wrote:
> My mythbuntu 11.04 system is showing strange behaviour running rtcwake.
> If I set the wakeup time in the future then /proc/driver/rtc has the
> correct time (and the system wakes up correctly).  If I set the wakeup
> time to some time in the past (reasons explained later) /proc/driver/rtc
> shows +5min into future from when set. On wake up or re-boot
> /proc/driver/rtc always shows alrm_time: 00:00:00, alrm_date: 1970-01-01
> but, even though this time is in the past the system will still wakes up
> at midnight each day!!!  The reason for trying to set the wake up time
> in the past was to prevent the issue of it waking up at 00:00:00, but I
> can't set it in the near past and it seems to wake up anyway!!  The m/b
> is Jetway JNC98-525, BIOS is Award Version A04.  Thoughts would be helpful.