Re: automatic poweroff
Indeed, I had not compiled ACPI support with _all_ ACPI options. I
therefore compiled a new kernel with all options selected.
I now notice that:
- Hitting the power button for less than 4 secs wont do anything.
- Hitting the power button for more than 4 secs will poweroff the
machine immediately (poor fs of mine! ;-)
- 'poweroff -p' doesnt poweroff the machine, but gives me, as the last
line on my screen: "hwsleep-0178 [02] Acpi_enter_sleep_state: Entering
S5". At that moment, ctrl-alt-delete wont respond.
Here are the two files in /etc/acpi directory:
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$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
# /etc/acpid/events/powerbtn
# This is called when the user presses the power button and calls
# /etc/acpid/powerbtn.sh for further processing.
# Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
# through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
# specified.
# We need to react on "button power.*" and "button/power.*" because
# of kernel changes.
event=button[ /]power
action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
bono@thebrain:~$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
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$ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh
# Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been
# pressed.
/sbin/init 0
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Thanks again for your help.
PM, 22
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote:
>
> > My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
> > so properly when shut done from Windows.
>
> [...]
>
> > 2- I compiled a new kernel with ACPI enabled.
>
> You need to compile the kernel with _all_ ACPI options enabled (I only say
> that because I neglected to do that the first time and thought I'd
> enabled ACPI :) and then you need to install acpid which provides some
> utilities which actually talk ACPI with the kernel.
>
> I now, after exiting X gracefully, just hit the power switch and power
> down cleanly.
>
> Patrick
>
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