Re: power button dell inspiron 4000
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Tim Connors wrote:
> >
> > One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down
> > immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on
> > the web to disable the power button (seems there are lots of references to
> > toshiba laptops though), has anyone else found anything useful?
> >
> > Unfortuneatly, there is nothing in the bios that says "power
> > switch==off/suspend" - is there a newer bios that fixes this?
> >
> If dmesg pumps out something like this, then APM is enabled in the
> kernel.
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
>
> Edit /etc/lilo.conf
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
> append="apm=on"
> # restricted
> # alias=1
>
> Add the append line. Then when you halt, APM will shutoff the machine.
Sorry, that is not my problem... That works fine.
My problem is that the power button turns off the machine without so much
as questioning the kernel - no halt scripts, nuttin.
My desktop has the bios option of letting the power off button being
redefined to suspend the machine - can I do this with the Dell?
The button is in a bad place, and I keep hitting it.
--
TimC
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