Hi all!

I am using an Acer Aspire 3003NLMi laptop which seems to be working pretty well with Ubuntu. I used to Mandriva 2006 till 6.06 was realeased and I'm glad to say that the power control is much better with Ubuntu... I am able to Hibernate, Suspend and resume without problems...

One thing I havent figured out though... I use my laptop as my alarm in the morning blasting my favorite tunes using xmms-alarm plugin... nothing else is loud enough to wake me up ... but i would like to suspend my laptop when i sleep and then automatically get it to wake up at a set time so that xmms-alarm can start the playlist... is there a way to do this? I would prefer this than just turning off the backlight of the screen...

Thanks in advance

lib.

I believe that waking up from a suspended state would require an external signal, such as another computer accessing the computer via the network with an interface that will notice this. You might browse through the bios settings to see if there is some kind of an awake timer, but I really doubt it. I've never heard of something like that.

You could set the CPU frequency policy on "battery save" mode.

OMG!i thought you were joking!!! its actually true! how idiotic can MS be??... this is pathetic! read this...

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...DN/20050156873

jshiwal, thanks for your reply... i thought ACPI had more features and this was one of them... if I can do this by another computer waking this one up... how would I go about doing that? any pointers on that? I could use my LAN gateway for this...

Anyone else with other ideas? i will look at my BIOS... but i doubt it too... I dont remember anything like that...

lib.