----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:25 AM Subject: Clean shutdown from power button press?
> Hello, > I know that solaris in sparc can shutdown gracefully if you press the > power button ithink it is "powerd" that provides the OS support. > > I know linux in i386 can shutdown gracefully from a power button push when > using acpi and acpid. > > Is there a simmilar solution for the sparc linux port? Is there a debian > package I need to install ??? I don't believe there are any non-standard packages you need to install... it's most probably a kernel compile option, which should be in any of the stock kernels and would be defaulted to Y in a custom kernel config... it's always worked fine for me under sparc Debian. -k.
