From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 30 2: 7:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CB0037B401; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7U9DVq09260; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200108300913.f7U9DVq09260@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: Robert Watson , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 21:10:12 PDT." <200108300410.f7U4ACi41489@ambrisko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:13:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | 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). > > Correct ... and unfortunately it's done in hardware so you can trap it :-( > In some applications you want to make it really hard for someone to be > able to turn it off when a "power off" is not equivalent to "pull the > plug" and the "pull the plug" is safer for the system due to power supply > design. ... so rewire the power switch to the sleep button input, and set the sleep button action to S5. Then hitting the "power" button will shut down, but holding it down forever won't force power off... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message