On Sunday 10 January 2010 23:40:57 Stroller wrote: > On 10 Jan 2010, at 18:45, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 10 January 2010 19:11:52 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> one of the very last things I still need Win***s for is to wake me > >> up in > >> the morning: I set up a task schedule to launch a playlist with > >> Winamp. Do > >> you know of any way to let my laptop go on again automatically > >> after I put > >> it to sleep in its RAM? > >> > >> In case it helps: I'm running 32 bit i686, version 2.6.30. > > > > Sounds like a classic case of being WAAAAAAAY too complicated. > > > > Have you considered buying a cheap alarm clock? > > Or setting your phone to play a tune for an alarm? > > This was my reaction, too, but c'mon, Linux's sleep functionality must > have a rewake feature, mustn't it?
I dunno. Think about this - in suspend, nothing is working and no user-code is running. The only power consumed is what is needed to refresh RAM. That must be there otherwise the content goes away if you try and resume. So what part of the machine is powered to be able to wake it up? PCs don't have alarm clocks, the on-board clock can't usually do it, so the only option is for some code to be running, polling the time and cause the system to wake up. Which is exactly what suspend does not do. Wake-on-LAN can do it, but that's not what the OP wants. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
