For Linux to react to soft buttons like the power button on modern
machines and perform an action accordingly, you need to have a kernel
with ACPI support like 2.4, and not have APM compiled into the kernel
(otherwise ACPI will not load because APM already is).
The next step is to have acpid running (instead of apmd) to listen to
such events. The problem right now is that acpid is still much to
primitive, so I would suggest (unless you want to work on it yourself)
to wait a couple of months for it to mature.
Check out http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.html for information about
it.
On 15 Feb 2001 15:47:25 -0600, Tim Smolen wrote:
> What I need info on is when a user hits the power off button on the case,
> the machine shutting it self down instead of just instantly powering off. Is
> this posible? My machine does turn it self off correctly when runlevel 0
> completes so I know it's possible for the machine to do some things similar
> to this.
>
> tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Statux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:30 PM
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> Subject: Re: Linux Power Management
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> You mean like have the system shut itself off at the end of the runlevel 0
> switch? I _think_ you need to have hardware/BIOS support (though I'm not
> sure).. but I do know that you need to compile APM support into the
> kernel. If that is what you're talking about.
>
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tim Smolen wrote:
>
> > Is it possible for redhat Linux to interpret the soft-power down and shut
> it
> > self down correctly?
> >
> >
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