[gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card.
Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded
I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :)

What should work is:
1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
   suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
   somewhere.
3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and
   it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk
   for later processing.

My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported
by lspci):

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart)
03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus)
04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)


I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. 

Thank you very much in advance for any help!

Best regards and have a nice weekend! :)
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[James Wall]

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On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card.
> Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded
> I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :)
> 
> What should work is:
> 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
>    suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
> 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
>    somewhere.
> 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and
>    it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk
>    for later processing.
> 
> My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported
> by lspci):
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02)
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B)
> 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
> 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
> 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
> 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G)
> 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B)
> 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
> 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
> 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40)
> 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
> 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
> 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
> 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
> 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
> 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
> 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
> 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
> 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
> 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
> 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
> 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
> 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart)
> 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus)
> 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
> 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
> 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
> 
> 
> I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. 
> 
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> 
> Best regards and have a nice weekend! :)
> mcc
> 
> 
To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to
look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically
called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at
that point.

HTH, James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:59:43 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> What should work is:
> 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
>    suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
> 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
>    somewhere.

This can be done through the BIOS. MythTV also has an option to wake up
before recordings, so you could look at how they do it.

> 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and
>    it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk
>    for later processing.

Mplayer with record with mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile somefile.mpg tv://


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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troublesome. - Isaac Asimov

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Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[Stroller]

On 16 Oct 2010, at 14:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:59:43 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>
>> What should work is:
>> 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
>>   suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
>> 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
>>   somewhere.
>
> This can be done through the BIOS. MythTV also has an option to wake  
> up
> before recordings, so you could look at how they do it.

MythTV just sets the time in the BIOS then shuts the computer down (or  
to sleep).

First Google hit for "wake from sleep linux":
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726596/continual-wake-and-sleep-for-minimal-power-usage-on-linux
http://tinyurl.com/32ahspk

Linked to in the answer:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[meino.cramer]

James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com> [10-10-16 16:23]:
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> On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card.
> > Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded
> > I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :)
> > 
> > What should work is:
> > 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
> >    suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
> > 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
> >    somewhere.
> > 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and
> >    it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk
> >    for later processing.
> > 
> > My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported
> > by lspci):
> > 
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02)
> > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B)
> > 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
> > 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
> > 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
> > 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G)
> > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B)
> > 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
> > 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
> > 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40)
> > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
> > 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
> > 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
> > 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
> > 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
> > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
> > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
> > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
> > 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
> > 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
> > 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
> > 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
> > 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart)
> > 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus)
> > 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
> > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
> > 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
> > 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> > 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> > 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
> > 
> > 
> > I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. 
> > 
> > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > 
> > Best regards and have a nice weekend! :)
> > mcc
> > 
> > 
> To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to
> look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically
> called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at
> that point.
> 
> HTH, James
> 
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Hi James,

I found that settings already. 
But as I wrote thet I would not have problems with editing crontabs, I
did mean to enter the BIOS each time to enter the wakeup time,
when my Gentoo should again start to count its 64bits... ;)

Is there a way to put this wakeup time into the BIOS via userland
(and without doing harm to BIOS/BIOS flash or whatelse can be
killed tzhat way...)?

Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[meino.cramer]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [10-10-16 16:23]:
> 
> On 16 Oct 2010, at 14:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:59:43 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> >
> >>What should work is:
> >>1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
> >>  suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
> >>2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
> >>  somewhere.
> >
> >This can be done through the BIOS. MythTV also has an option to wake 
> >up
> >before recordings, so you could look at how they do it.
> 
> MythTV just sets the time in the BIOS then shuts the computer down (or 
> to sleep).
> 
> First Google hit for "wake from sleep linux":
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/726596/continual-wake-and-sleep-for-minimal-power-usage-on-linux
> http://tinyurl.com/32ahspk
> 
> Linked to in the answer:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup
> 
> Stroller.
> 
> 

Who, sorry, I had frist answered the first posting and than read
the other ones...

Thanks a lot for your help...will see what I can accomplish...

Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic timed DVB-T recording possibilty searched...

[meino.cramer]

James Wall <wallservices@gmail.com> [10-10-16 16:23]:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> On 10/16/2010 01:59 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I want to record DVB-T broadcast with my (already working) DVB-T card.
> > Since there are only a couple of broadcasts which should be recorded
> > I have no problems with editing crontabs to acchieve, what I want :)
> > 
> > What should work is:
> > 1) The PC should wake up from suspend-to-ram or (better!)
> >    suspend-to-disk state (suspend-to-* works both already).
> > 2) Therefore it must be possible to store the wake-up time
> >    somewhere.
> > 3) The DVBT-card should be set to the correct channel and
> >    it is sufficient to store the whole *.ts-stram to disk
> >    for later processing.
> > 
> > My PC is a desktop PC with the following hardware (as reported
> > by lspci):
> > 
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 Northbridge only single slot PCI-e GFX Hydra part (rev 02)
> > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port B)
> > 00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port D)
> > 00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port E)
> > 00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
> > 00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port G)
> > 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (external gfx1 port B)
> > 00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 40)
> > 00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 41)
> > 00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (rev 40)
> > 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
> > 00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller (rev 40)
> > 00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (rev 40)
> > 00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
> > 00:16.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
> > 00:16.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
> > 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration
> > 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map
> > 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
> > 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control
> > 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control
> > 01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
> > 01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
> > 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
> > 03:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart)
> > 03:00.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus)
> > 04:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
> > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8059 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
> > 06:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
> > 07:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> > 07:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03)
> > 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)
> > 
> > 
> > I am using a recent gentoo with vanilla kernel 2.6.35.7. 
> > 
> > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > 
> > Best regards and have a nice weekend! :)
> > mcc
> > 
> > 
> To get the computer to come out of the suspended states, you need to
> look for an option in the BIOS to automatically start your PC, typically
> called RTC Alarm or similar. Your cron jobs will be able to take over at
> that point.
> 
> HTH, James
> 
> - -- 
> No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large
> number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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Ok, so far so nice.
I managed to set the alarm time correctly, to activate the RTC-alarm
in the BIOS, and "wake up" my PC:
It means: The fans woke up, the harddisc start spinning, ... but no
output to screen and (I could not remember, since there was a call
on the phone at that moment) there was no POST "beep" from the BIOS.

Am I lost?

Best regards,
mcc