[vdr] nvram-wakeup for EPIA-5000?

[Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>]

Hi,

I'm trying to find out how to have my EPIA-5000 boot in time for
recordings. 

I tried the instructions in README.mb but it seems setting the wakeup
time in the BIOS does not change the NVRAM content at all. All 4 files
are identical.  Bummer.

Next, I tried SuSE 8.0 with ACPI but

echo "YY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS" > /proc/acpi/alarm

as described in c't 25/02 pp. 234 will always freeze the machine (OK they
were talking about SuSE 8.1). It would be nice if that worked ... 

There is a wakeup time in /dev/rtc but only the time, not the
day.  (The BIOS setting allows for setting the day as well,
strange.) Apparently, the ACPI code will only deal with the RTC...
sm_osl_proc_read_alarm() does read the RTC_*_ALARM values for secords,
minutes and hours, but always assumes the current day.  This makes alarms
more than 24h in the future impossible. Enhanced Alarm isn't implemented
yet with the SuSE 8.0 kernel (it isn't even implemented in
acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff). Bummer.

Am I stuck with RTC alarms only for the next 24 hours? Any help is
appreciated :-))

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