Elizabeth Dodd said the following, on 04.03.2008 07:20: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Duncan Webb wrote: > >>> Mine doesn't always wake up. I think this relates to the motherboard, and >>> it doesn't do wake-on-lan so I'm not sure if I will keep autoshutdown or >>> let it run all day again. >>> >> How do you set the clock? >> >> The best page I've found on this subject is >> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup >> >> Interestingly, I found a problem yesterday, the time on my Freevo box >> was one hour out, the reason was that the madwifi driver didn't load >> correctly so Freevo had no network and ntp didn't correct the clock, so >> the time was taken from the system clock, which should have been set >> when the machine was turned off but hadn't been. The reason is that >> hwclock stopped working after installing kernel-2.6.22 so I needed to >> upgrade util-linux to util-linux-ng and then it worked. >> >> In the process of installing util-linux-ng I noticed a new program >> rtcwake which may help set the wake-up time on Freevo boxes. >> >> A bit of a long explanation... >> > > I set the clock with nvram. I've read all the logs. nvram was writing the > required data, just that sometimes the nonvolatile RAM jsut didn't care about > it. > Then when one wakeup is missed, nothing happens at all for days - until > someone physically checks the box. > I've upgraded util-linux and will look at rtcwake (one day).
>From the ACPI_Wakeup page, nvram is for motherboards dated before 1999, I would recommend ACPI as you most likely don't need a reboot to set the wakeup, much nicer. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
