Re: waking system up using RTC (was Re: rtcwakeup.c)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> > > > Your new RTC driver seems to work for me (thinkpad x60), but no, I
> > > > can't get wakeup using RTC to work:
> > > 
> > > Does it work using /proc/acpi/alarm?  In my experience, ACPI wakeup
> > > doesn't work on Linux ... hence my pleasant surprise to see it work
> > 
> > No, I could not get it working using /proc/acpi/alarm.
> 
> Then I suspect that's the root cause of your problem ... ACPI code,
> in either Linux or your BIOS, is not sufficiently cooperative.  All
> that the rtc-acpi driver does is move the wakeup code, it doesn't
> actually change what the /proc/acpi/alarm stuff does.

I searched the bios; timer wakeup is enabled, but I can't set timer
wakeup from the bios.

> > rtc-acpi 00:07: AT compatible RTC (S4wake) (y3k), 1 month alarm
> 
> Seems like Intel's chips won't do one year alarms ... so sad.  :)

:-).

(BTW... if STR still does not work on your notebook, let me know, and
we can try to fix that...)
								Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/