Just out of curiosity, which board do you have, and do you know if it's possible with your board to do suspend-to-disk with usb wakeup? I've been wanting to do this too, but I didn't think it was possible. I have an Asus M2NPV-VM, which seems pretty fully featured, so hopefully it will work.
<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Leighton Brough</b> <<a href="mailto:brough@baremetalsoft.com">brough@baremetalsoft.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>> On 07/11/2007 01:43 PM, David Frascone wrote:<br>><br>>> I can't think of any way to do it -- but is there a way to turn on a<br>>> myth box via remote? What about if suspended? Can it do wake-on-serial?
<br>>><br>><br>> Don't know if this works (never tried it since my Myth frontend is<br>> basically always on), but what about wake on USB with a USB receiver<br>> (like the ATI/NVIDIA/X10 devices or even some of the for-sale USB
<br>> receivers, like from iguanaworks)?<br>><br><br>I'm successfully using the Microsoft MCE remote with its USB receiver to<br>do this. It works well to wake my combined front/backend from the<br>suspend-to-RAM state. In fact it is designed to do precisely this. I've
<br>been very happy with this remote. I'm sure some other remotes will have<br>similar features.<br><br>You need to tell the kernel you'd like the system to be woken by the USB<br>receiver. Something like "echo USB2 > /proc/acpi/wakeup" should do the
<br>trick (depending on which USB port the receiver is attached to). You<br>will probably also need to change some jumpers on the motherboard to<br>ensure the USB port in question is powered when the system is suspended.<br>
<br>Exactly which states (off, suspend-to-RAM, suspend-to-disk) the USB can<br>wake the system from depends on your motherboard, so this might not work<br>in every configuration. On a combine FE/BE you would also want to add
<br>the ability to wake at a specified time to record when it needs to. With<br>my cheap Asus board, it all worked as I wanted, once it was correctly<br>configured. The result is that that box is up and usable within 10<br>
seconds of hitting the remote power button - about as long as it takes<br>the monitor to wake up.<br><br>I found it took quite a lot of reading, experimentation and frustration<br>to get suspend-to-RAM working just right as this depends on various
<br>factors including your HW and the kernel config and version. But once it<br>does work the net effect is very satisfactory. The WAF is high :-)<br><br>Leighton<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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