[mythtv-users] Linux suspend mode WAS: (no subject)

Richard Bronosky mythtv at bronosky.com
Fri Oct 21 10:36:36 EDT 2005


Mercury Morris wrote:
> On 10/21/05, *michel moalem* <mmoalem at mail2producer.com 
> <mailto:mmoalem at mail2producer.com>> wrote:
>
>     hi there all
>     i'm a complete linux newbie and have tried the knopmyth cd
>     yesterday for the first time. I like what it offers but had some
>     problems allready. However before i will start takling the
>     problems i encountered running some of the options i would like to
>     know if there is a way if running the mythtv box (either under
>     this distro or another) so that it boots much quicker. I have
>     tried GeeXBox as well and while it is short on many features
>     compare to mythtv it is booting extremly quickly once installed on
>     the HD (well quick enogh for my wife not to nag me about getting a
>     dvd player instead...)
>     so please any advice?
>     cheers
>     michel
>
>
> Others have suggested that you leave your system on all the time, and 
> that's what I did as soon as I got the system up and running in daily 
> recording.
>
> But it didn't take long to find that the noise of the computer 
> bothered me when I read the paper, listened to the radio, and stuff 
> like that.  So, I installed nvram-wakeup.  Once you have your MythTV 
> system running more or less like the VCRs do (come on when it's time 
> to record, record, then shut off), it's quite easy to specify how long 
> in advance you want the machine to power on.
>
> I have mine set to three (3) minutes, but it could be set to anything 
> (I think).
> So, if you know that you want to use your MythTV system around say, 5pm,
> you could set the various parameters and have the system power/boot up 
> well in advance.  When you sat down at 5pm, the machine would be up 
> and running, waiting for whatever pleasure you have in mind.
>
> -- 
> MM
>
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    Is there not a suspend mode that Linux can take advantage of?  I 
know that my Apple PowerBook wakes from a sleep and is COMPLETELY ready 
(not that Windows' "show you the desktop, but have the hard disk 
grinding away in the background" mode) to use in 3 seconds when I open 
the lid.
    Or...  Can you not cache all of the processing that takes place 
during a boot, write it to the disk, and recover it on reboot.  You 
would need a key sequence to override the "boot from cache" process for 
when you recompile a kernel, or change hardware.  It seems to me that 
someone would have already built a tool for this already.

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