[Voyage-linux] Re: Re: Alix Power Button

2010-09-23 Thread Andreas Delleske
Dear Edgar, I am a newbie, so maybe my question is a little stupid :( ... but anyone knows how to connect a power button to the alix2dX board? I have connected a hard drive to this board and would be great to shutdown the operating system gracefully. there is no such thing as a power

Re: [Voyage-linux] Re: Re: Alix Power Button

2010-09-23 Thread Michael Steinmann
oh, I get it, I was thinking of a power-off switch to cut power. yes, all alix boards have a switch S1 (on some models it is not populated, but one could solder it there) -Michael 2010/9/23 Andreas Delleske delle...@vauban.de Dear Edgar, I am a newbie, so maybe my question is a little

Re: [Voyage-linux] Alix Power Button

2010-09-23 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Edgar Landivar e_landi...@palosanto.com wrote: Dear Folks, I am a newbie, so maybe my question is a little stupid :( ... but anyone knows how to connect a power button to the alix2dX board? I have connected a hard drive to this board and would be great to

Re: [Voyage-linux] Re: Re: Alix Power Button

2010-09-23 Thread Edgar Landivar
Thanks a lot for the responses! In fact, i saw a switch called mode switch in the ALIX documentation (http://www.pcengines.ch/pdf/alix2.pdf) Pag. 20. So, I was very excited with the news and thought about writing the script Andreas suggested, to monitor when this switch is pressed down and