On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 18:10 +0200, Enno Fennema wrote: > Could anyone suggest a way to determine in a (shell) program whether my > computer was switched on by RTC alarm or by me pressing the power button. > > Normally RTC wakes my computer every evening to do daily routine work > and switches back to soft-off thereafter. If I switched on my computer > manually and am working on it it should not switch off. My best, but > clumsy, effort is at the end of the daily work comparing boot time and > login times. Will you please try the following commit and see whether the problem still exists? commit e1094bfa26e5e94af2fea79e004614dbce42b008 Author: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 14 11:32:59 2008 +0800 ACPI: Disable Fixed_RTC event when installing RTC handler In fact the commit is already merged into upstream kernel. Will you please try the latest kernel(2.6.26-rc7)? Thanks. > > Thanks in advance, > Enno > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html