On 19-Aug-2003 Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Stephen Montgomery-Smith schrieb: >> >>> Actually the power-off button doesn't work at all under >>> FreeBSD-current. (It is a soft power-off button that dmesg shows is >>> detected by the OS.) >> >> >> Have you tried to hold the power-button a little bit longer? My >> power-button turn the system off when I pres it for ~4secs (but I >> haven't a Tyan board). >> >> > > I tried pressing the power button for a longer time. It does actually do > something. After about 4 seconds, it has the same effect as "shutdown -p now" > or "halt -p", that is, the video card stops working, the fans keep going, and > the disk access light comes fully on. > > I am guessing that this 4 second delay is part of how FreeBSD wants it. If that > is the case, it shows that the power button is working as it should - it is the > power-down process that is not working right.
No, the 4 second countdown thing is in the BIOS/hardware and is not OS dependent at all. If the box doesn't properly shut off when you hold the power button for 4 seconds, that is a hardware or BIOS bug and something FreeBSD has no control over. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
