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 button on the alix2 boards, they're > intended to run 24/7. Well there IS an option (for ALIX 3D3 at least) to solder a power button to the ALIX as ALIX has a general purpose I/O. http://www.twam.info/linux/gpio-on-alix3d3 http://voyage-linux.34677.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-What-about-GPIO-support-for-ALIX-3D3-td875443.html You might then provide a daemon or something else to detect operation / processing interrupt (if possible?) of the switch and then shutdown -h now. The following is for the WRAP board, so maybe not useful for the ALIX: http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wrap_switches&s=gpio I did not try anything like that, I'm only using the LED and they work fine. I think this might be a useful option to implement or research in future voyage versions, as we might usw ALIX with VGA as a lightweight terminel (see LTSP project: https://wiki.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/KIPwiki/index.php/EDV:LTSP/alix3d3 - in German) -- Kind regards Andreas _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
