Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:51:23 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, smp@csn.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: power-off without halt Message-ID: <36ED64BB.6454E97F@tdx.co.uk> References: <199903151941.MAA20523@panzer.plutotech.com>
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"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > Don't ATX power supplies have some sort of soft power-off capability? > How about tying a "power" button on the front panel of this device to a > switch that would tell the machine to halt itself and then power off? > > It looks like the pieces are there. What you want, I suppose, is a > motherboard that can intercept the power switch signal, generate an > interrupt, and then wait for some feedback from the OS before sending the > signal on to shut down the power. They do... Both my boxes here do it while running Win'95/98... If you want to switch them off instantly, no questions asked - you have to hold the on/off button for 4 seconds. If you just tap the same button Win'95/98 shuts down, then switches the machine off... Quite handy I guess :-) (Except more often than not the reason for wanting to switch off the machine is that Win'9X has crashed, beyond seeing the switch being thrown :-) (In which case a 4 second extended press kills it dead... :-) -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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