[linux-dvb] Re: Anyone using NVRAM Wakeup / auto powerdown /WOL

[Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>]

On 20 Jul 2002, Rainer Zocholl (RZ) wrote:

RZ> kde4linux@melware.de(Ralf Spachmann)  16.06.02 15:05
RZ>
RZ> >I am fighting with my VDR-Box since weeks to make
RZ> >it power off/on using nvram-wakeup and VDR-Timers.
RZ>
RZ> >I had contact to several programmers of nv-ram tools
RZ> >but no solutions.
RZ>
RZ> What have you tried?
RZ> What is happening?
RZ> Which BIOS Version do you use?

this board is supported by the cvs version of nvram-wakeup since
2002/06/18. (after some tests with Ralf)


RZ> >So I am asking: Is anyone out there who has
RZ> >this automatic business running on a Gigabyte GA 7ZXE board ?
RZ>
RZ> Do you mean "GA-7ZXE" ?

what's the difference?



RZ> I remember that gigabyte have had LOT of problems
RZ> with "Wake up" especially if the board is overclocked-
RZ> don't know which number it was, but it was a "hi end"
RZ> version including  all...
RZ>
RZ>
RZ> From: "Leiser" <gregorski@leisergmbh.de>
RZ> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:26:18 +0200
RZ> >At Offset 0x55-0x59 are stored the alarm values (Gigabyte GA-7IXE AMI Bios)
RZ> >At Offset 0x30 ist Stored the MSB of the checksum for the extended cmos ram.
RZ> >At Offset 0x30 ist Stored the LSB.
RZ> >I couldn't find out how to calculate the matching checksum. Can anybody
RZ> >help?

and furtherr down, in the same mail, Leiser wrote:

> I  couldn't find out how to calculate the matching checksum. Can anybody
> help?  To  workaround  I  summed  up  the differences of the old and new
> values  and  added them to the checksum. Perhaps not very elegant but it
> works (thanks again to Frank). I wrote a tool, but at the moment more or
> less a study.

So I would say, there's no _big_ problem.


c ya
        Sergei
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