RE: [Acpi] Re: shutdown on pressing the ATX power button

[Grover, Andrew]

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:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:56 AM
> To: Sergei Haller; [e-mail]; 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);
>  	}
>  
> 
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