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: =========================================== $ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn =========================================== =========================================== $ cat /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh #!/bin/sh # /etc/acpi/poweroff.sh # Initiates a shutdown when the power putton has been # pressed. /sbin/init 0 =========================================== 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 > > -- > Patrick Wiseman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux user #17943 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
