That's regrettable, seeing as the power button is better used, IMHO,
for a 'halt' command rather than a violent shutdown. Have you tried
using acpi_listen and attempting to generate various events (such as
closing the lid) to see what other ACPI events you can catch?

On 3/26/06, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 בMarch 2006 19:52, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > Save me the RTFM and tell me where to hook this so it works with fn+F4?
> > I'm sure "hotplug" has something to that effect.
>
> As others noted, you need ACPI support. In my laptop (regretfully
> an HP one), I found it far easier to catch via ACPI the *power* button
> instead of the Fn-keys. So now it functions as follows:
>  - A short press activate my suspend2ram script.
>  - It is revived automatically with LID open -- probably BIOS magic).
>  - A few seconds press is total poweroff (normal BIOS behavior,
>    not configured by me).
>
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