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apmsleep - go into suspend or standby mode and wake-up
later
apmsleep [-sSnwhVd] [--suspend] [--standby] [--noapm]
[--wait] [--help] [--version] [--debug] [+]hh:mm
Some computers, especially laptops, can wake-up from a
low-power suspend to DRAM mode using the Real-time-clock
(RTC) chip. Apmsleep can be used to set the alarm time in
the RTC and to go into suspend or standby mode. An inter
rupt from the RTC causes the computer to wake-up. The
program detects this event, by waiting for a leap in the
kernel time and terminates successfully. If no time leap
occurs within one minute, or something goes wrong, the
exit value will be non-zero.
The wake-up time can be specified in two formats:
+hh:mm specifies a relative offset to the current time.
The computer will suspend for exactly hh hours and mm min
utes plus a few seconds to wake up.
hh:mm specifies absolute local time in 24-hour format. The
time stored in the RTC is not important. You may change
the time zone used, with the TZ environment variable as
usual. Daylight saving time is not obeyed in this version,
but might be in a future release.
-V, --version
Print the apmsleep program version and exit immedi
ately.
-s, --suspend
Put the machine into suspend mode if possible
(default). On my laptop, suspend mode turns off
everything except the memory.
-S, --standby
Put the machine into standby mode if possible. On
my laptop, standby mode turns off screen, hard
disk, and CPU.
-w, --wait
Wait indefinitely for the time leap.
-n, --noapm
Do not call /usr/bin/apm to suspend computer, just
set the alarm clock and wait for time leap.
-d, --debug
Print some information about what is going on. Kernel The special character device /dev/rtc must exist
and the Linux kernel needs to be compiled with APM
and RTC support (CONFIG_RTC, and relevant CON
FIG_APM* options).
BIOS The computer must have the 'suspend to RAM' feature
enabled in the BIOS; 'suspend to Disk' will not
work, because the computer is turned off com
pletely. You do not need to enable the ALARM timer,
it will be activated by apmsleep. On some boards,
you can configure which interrupts can be used to
awake from suspend mode. If you have such a board,
you might want to make sure that keyboard (IRQ 1)
and RTC (IRQ 8) are among those interrupts.
Privileges
The program must be run as root or have the SUID
attribute set (see chmod(1)).
Apmsleep cannot detect which event terminated the suspen
sion. Possible events are: keyboard or mouse activity,
modem ring, alarm from RTC, any other interrupt.
This program was tested on a Winbook XL laptop (Pentium)
only. It may not function on your hardware.
Written by Peter Englmaier (ppe@pa.uky.edu) and may be
freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Pub
lic License. The code is based on Paul Gortmacher's RTC
test/example program. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY for
this program. The current maintainer is Peter Englmaier.
xapm(1), apmd(8),rtc.txt(Linux Kernel Documentation)
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