[mythtv-users] Can't get system to wake up at set time.

[Craig Huff]

To paraphrase Princess Leia: "You're my last hope."

I am using nvram-wakeup and Suspend2 to set the wakeup time and
shutdown my Fedora Core 6 system so that it will wake up when it is
time to record a show.

The pieces work, but not together.

I can use nvram-wakeup to set the alarm clock and confirm it is set in the BIOS.

I
can set the alarm with nvram-wakeup and shut down the system using the
front panel "soft-off" power button and the system WILL wake up at the
appointed time.

I can use Suspend2 to hibernate the system and recover on reboot.

I can use mythwelcome to invoke both of
 these.

However, when I do this, the system never wakes up at the time specified.

I have tried the suggested change to /etc/init.d/halt, but no improvement.

I
tried setting the alarm time twice with manual invocations of
nvram-wakeup (to the same time) followed by a forced shutdown (shutdown -n now), but no
improvement.

FWIW, here is the debug_info from Suspend2:
Suspend2 debugging info:
- SUSPEND core   : 2.2.9
- Kernel Version : 2.6.18-1.2869_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2
- Compiler vers. : 4.1
- Attempt number : 6
- Parameters     : 0 16 0 0 0 5
- Overall expected compression percentage: 0.
- Compressor is 'lzf'.
  Compressed 290709504 bytes into 145282452 (50 percent compression).
- SwapAllocator active.
  Swap available for image: 519908 pages.
- FileAllocator inactive.
- I/O speed: Write 81 MB/s, Read 105 MB/s.
- Extra pages    : 22 used/756.

The mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI with an Athlon 64
 3200+ and 512MB.  I upgraded to this from a Gigabyte GA-7DX mobo I had planned to use because I had the same problem with it using FC5 and thought it was just too old/incompatible.


I would consider using a different distro, but based on Jarod Wilson's
website, I would expect that FC is suitable.  I find it hard to believe
that this new ASUS mobo is incapable of supporting ACPI suspension and
wakeup by alarm clock.


I am running out of ideas.

I've been struggling with MythTV since September and just about run out of patience.  If I can't get this working this month, I'll just have to give up on Linux and MythTv and go buy a Tivo because "it just works".


Any help would be appreciated.


Craig Huff
huffcs from yahoo



 
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