[gentoo-user] Clarifying using the button to cause a shutdown

[gentoo-user] Clarifying using the button to cause a shutdown

[Andrew Lowe]

Hi all,
	I recently did a ground up rebuild of my little media computer. When it 
was running I used to push the power button to initiate a shutdown. I 
now can't remember what I had to fiddle to achieve this so that I can 
replicate this on my rebuilt box. Is the accepted way to do this as per 
the ACPI/Configuration page,

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ACPI/Configuration

in the wiki? I have seen some other stuff in portage concerning buttons 
on laptops but I have hazy recollections of doing the above on the box 
in question.

	Thoughts greatly appreciated,

		Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarifying using the button to cause a shutdown

[Michael]

Hi,
you are right, this is handelt by ACPI
 
You´ll first need to check your BIOS settings. Look for something like "Power 
button" with 2 possible settings - instant power off and wait 4s.

If you set that option to wait, a short press on the power button triggers an 
event and a default install of acpid (daemon has to be running, of course) 
should shutdown your system.

I think this should be what you want. If it fails, check your Kernel apci 
settings (like CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON), you found already the right wiki page.

Michael

Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012, 23:22:38 schrieb Andrew Lowe:
> Hi all,
> 	I recently did a ground up rebuild of my little media computer. When it
> was running I used to push the power button to initiate a shutdown. I
> now can't remember what I had to fiddle to achieve this so that I can
> replicate this on my rebuilt box. Is the accepted way to do this as per
> the ACPI/Configuration page,
> 
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ACPI/Configuration
> 
> in the wiki? I have seen some other stuff in portage concerning buttons
> on laptops but I have hazy recollections of doing the above on the box
> in question.
> 
> 	Thoughts greatly appreciated,
> 
> 		Andrew