[vdr] Re: Shutdown frontend for saving power and heat

["Ortner, Uwe" <Uwe.Ortner@faidor.de>]

Am Mon, 2003-05-12 um 13.30 schrieb Jörg Knitter:
> > You have to set the "dvb_shutdown_timeout=0"-option for
> > "dvb-core.o"-module. When you have installed DVB-driver edit your
> > modules.conf, if you use insmod-scripts edit the Makefile, section
> > insmod.
> > 
> > "0" disables power-management, any other value is the timeout in
> seconds
> > after which the tuner-frontend is shutdown when device is released by
> > the software.
> > 
> > But VDR doesn't support this. So you have to stop VDR completely to
> > release the device.
> 
> Does anybody know if it is possible to set the VDR station into sleep
> mode (suspend to disk or suspend to ram)?
> IMHO this would be a great solution if you do not only want to install a
> basic VDR system but also a general purpose Linux system with VDR.
> Currently, I use a full install with KDE etc. and the system takes
> around one minute to start up which is far to long. I know that I can
> optimize this by modifying the start scripts and removing unnecessary
> packages, but nevertheless I don´t know if a 24h/7d system is really
> necessary when boot time is shorter - this additionally saves energy and
> might also save the life of the system parts, especially the hard
> disk(s)...
> 
> Jörg

you can give swsuspend a try:

http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp

works fine in my environment ...

Uwe


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