[linux-dvb] Re: AW: Re: Idea to save power (and also your money) with VDR

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:59:33 +0100, Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>
wrote:

> Jens Groth wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >the idea of starting the PC via RTC sounds great.
> >I just took a look in my mainboard manual (Gigabyte GA-6BA).
> >This board support AT and ATX power supplies and has
> >an Award BIOS. If you configure it for ATX, then you
> >can enter an alarm for startup in the bios. So it should
> >be really just some programming to get this feature to be
> >integrated in to linux.
> 
> Is it really just the RTC-Chip's alarm-timer that needs to be
> programmed? (or is it a special timer in the mainboard?)
> That should be easy, is'nt there some code available already?
> 
> Then there should be a switch-off strategy depending on minimum
> off time between to timers, and no off when using keyboard/irda/...

Just saw this old discussion. 
Has already someone tried apmsleep from the APM Daemon package?

The rtc driver itself contains ioctls to set the alarm timer. So this
should be easy to integrate.

Emil


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