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

Pavel Machek
2006-08-27T10:17:25Z

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...)