On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:38:05PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > > qu...@laptop.org said: > > To avoid it powering off, type lid-off and press enter. Yes, you only have > > eight seconds to do this. > > The printout said that, but I didn't even get started typing before > it timed out.
Yes, but I wanted you to be ready to have to do it. > I'm not sure where 8 seconds came from. If that happened often > enough I'd probably be able to do it fast enough. But that was the > first time I had seen it. I wasn't quick enough to read and > understand and type. Remember, I was trying to not destroy the > evidence so I was going slowly. Sure, not a criticism, just making sure you have the tools you need. The eight seconds comes from here: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openfirmware/browser/dev/olpc/lid.fth#L6 There's a two second delay before the message appears. The timer starts as soon as ok is printed. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel