Just use acpid - it should notice the power button press and do the right
thing.
We do not want to hardcode what specific buttons do.
Regards -- Andy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@suse.cz]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: Sergei Haller; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; ACPI mailing list
> Subject: [Acpi] Re: shutdown on pressing the ATX power button
>
>
> Hi!
>
> > is there any way to let the system execute something by
> pressing the ATX
> > power button (preferrable executing 'shutdown -h now', but
> would be nice
> > if it was configurable)
> >
> > I looked into the (very large) list archive but didnt find
> any answer.
> > if it is a kind of FAQ or off topic, please point me to the
> place I could
> > find an answer.
>
> Try this, and put this: into inittab
>
> # Action on special keypress (ALT-UpArrow)
> kb::kbrequest:/etc/rc/rc.reboot 2 0
>
> --- clean/drivers/acpi/events/evevent.c Sun Jul 8 23:26:27 2001
> +++ linux/drivers/acpi/events/evevent.c Sun Jul 8 23:25:01 2001
> @@ -193,6 +168,8 @@
>
> if ((status_register & ACPI_STATUS_POWER_BUTTON) &&
> (enable_register & ACPI_ENABLE_POWER_BUTTON)) {
> + printk ("acpi: Power button pressed!\n");
> + kill_proc (1, SIGWINCH, 1);
> int_status |= acpi_ev_fixed_event_dispatch
> (ACPI_EVENT_POWER_BUTTON);
> }
>
>
> --
> I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I
> don't care."
> Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at
> discuss@linmodems.org
>
>
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