* David Turetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030228 22:59]: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CaT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:59 PM > To: Eduardo Duenez > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Laptop's power button made to suspend? > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:48:26PM -0500, Eduardo Duenez wrote: > > Is it possible to configure my Woody laptop so if the power button is > > pressed (say, by mistake) then the laptop only goes into suspend mode > rather > > than just turning immediately and forcefully? Or at least to make it > > shutdown cleanly? I've played with other people's laptops (running > Windoze) > > and it works more or less as follows: just pressing the power button > equals > > suspend, and holding it down for a second or two really equals > shutting down > > forcefully. Would be nice to emulate this behavior... > > I'm not too sure about APM but I know this (or something similar) can be > done with ACPI as it's what I do right now with my power button. Give > 2.4's ACPI a go. If it doesn't work, see about trying the patches from > the acpi team (I believe Andrew Grover from Intel heads it). Also, don't > forget to install the acpid package. > > IIRC there is a Windows XP option that allows you to specify what action > you want taken when the power button is depressed, the cover is closed, > so apparently these functions are in some sense programmable
On my wife's Win2K machine, if I select Start, Shutdown, the machine gracefully shuts down and powers off completely. Laptops are even more configurable as you mentioned. Hall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
