mario berger

Hi!

I have quite a crazy idea, and no clue about how to realize it, so I
just thought I'd ask you lot!

My BIOS supports daily booting at a certain time, so a it'd be nice to
be woken up by a song, a video or something like that. I'm sure it _can_
be done by putting a kernel on a bootable CD and configuring it right,
including the play command in rc.local or something.

Has any of you ever done / heard of something like this? Any clues as to
how to configure the kernel, lilo, the startup etc.?

TIA!
~Mik
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del

Not crazy, but just a bit out there!

Never done it or heard of anyone doing it, sane people have alarm
clocks, dogs, police raids or SO to wake them up.
If the PC boots normally then no re config is needed nor is a bootable
CD. Just put the appropriate command in rc.local and put the volume up
to 11. ;-)
HTH,
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genti

try emovix. it is exactly what you are looking for.. it just boots up
and plays a playlist of movie or sound content.
k3b burns that cd's for you... it is quite easy....

http://movix.sourceforge.net/

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mario berger

Sounds great! I'll give it a try next weekend, thanks a lot!

~Mik

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joseph philip

Set your computer to boot up a few minutes before the alloted time. Enble
auto login in kdm/gdm/whatever if you need to play a movie locally. Else,
leave it alone.


Under your login, edit your crontab "crontab -e" and add appropriate commands. Example:
05 6 * * * /home/joseph/bin/playem >/dev/null 2>&1
That wakes me up.


If you want to play a movie, set the DISPLAY varialbe to ":0" which is
your first local display before executing mplayer or some similar
application.


If you want to run this off a cd, hints are :
1. isolinux
2. initrd
3. rc.S is the system-initialisation script.
4. kill -HUP 1 makes init re-read the inittab file.
5. hdparm -E 4 sets the cdrom to speed 4X.

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charlie edstrom

Why not just use cron? Its designed to perform tasks at any time / day /
interval you want.