Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:11:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS Message-ID: <200108300911.f7U9Bcq09230@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:26:50 EDT." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010829232558.76541C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> > > - I pushed the power button, and my system shut down cleanly!
> >
> > > Yes. ACPI brings some useful new features. 8)
> >
> > FSVO ``useful''. It's a real PITA to have to physically unplug the
> > machine when the kernel is wedged rather than have the power button
> > turn off the power. (The machine in question does not have a reset
> > switch.) As a sometime developer, I may well have a reason to power
> > the system off without performing any kind of shutdown.
>
> Most systems with soft power will perform a hard powerdown if you hold
> down the power button for a sufficiently long period of time (10 - 20
> seconds).
Actually, it's typically somewhere between four and five. The spec
mandates not less than four.
Personally, as a sometime developer, I'd get a reset switch. Power
cycling your system is Bad.
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