Re: [OT] BIOS Power On by PS/2 Keyboard

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:18:41 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> > > Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > > > > Anyone venture an explanation?
> > > > You mean that although you have that option turned off in the BIOS you
> > > > can still start your computer -from a cold state, not from suspension
> > > > nor hibernation- when you hit the space bar? And just the space bar or
> > > > any key?
> > > >
> > > > It could be a BIOS problem, then. Have you contacted Asus for this?
> > > I "always" during the last couple of months power off with 'acpitool
> > > -S'. 
> >
> > ***
> > -S      suspend (sleep state S4), if supported
> > ***
> >
> > Then you are not powering off the computer but hibernating.
> >
> > > BIOS Power on by PS/2 Keyboard is disabled. Then power is turned off on
> > > the system.
> >
> > Okay.
> >
> > > Turn power back on, hit the space bar, and the system comes back up.
> > > Grub-legacy shows its menu and I select the partition that was running
> > > and that has 'resume=LABEL=6Y080P0.05'. That loads everything from the
> > > swap space and resumes.
> >
> > It looks like you are getting into hibernation instead of performing a 
> > full power off but anyway, AFAIK restoring from hibernation can be 
> > only done from power button, not from keyboard :-?
>
> Right. That's what I thought. I "believe" that the BIOS Power on from 
> Keyboard option brought on my keyboard errors. The new keyboard that I 
> bought (since returned to the store...)had a multitude of multimedia 
> buttons and a "power" button, which I hit, and... it powered off the 
> system. As of yet the keyboard errors have not returned to my IBM 
> keyboard from 1993.
>
>
> > > I have not tried other keys, but next time around I will.

Hitting any key powers up the system.

Hugo

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