Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Saturday 16 September 2006 00:53, Richard Fish wrote: You need to add a sleep case here to do whatever you want to happen when you press the pwer button... Thanks Richard, I have added this: === case $group in button) case $action in power) /sbin/init 0 ;; sleep) /usr/sbin/hibernate ;; # if your laptop doesnt turn on/off the display via hardware # switch and instead just generates an acpi event, you can force # X to turn off the display via dpms. note you will have to run # 'xhost +local:0' so root can access the X DISPLAY. #lid) # xset dpms force off # ;; *) log_unhandled $* ;; esac ;; === and it now hibernates nicely. I have another acpi event question, but I'll start a new thread for it since it is not relevant. I hope my question and answers I received have satisfied the OP requirements too. -- Regards, Mick pgpsstYEtAw8I.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
use a usb mouse - dismantle it and use your big red button to close the left mouse switch (or better one of the aux ones if they exist). Map this to shutdown the system. BillK On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 11:17 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box Just a slight hijacking of this topic, I have a little EPIA server acting as firewall, npt, dhcp, dns,etc,etc. Now even though it doesn't pull a lot of power, I don't want it running -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 11:17 +1000, Andrew Lowe wrote: Just a slight hijacking of this topic, I have a little EPIA server acting as firewall, npt, dhcp, dns,etc,etc. Now even though it doesn't pull a lot of power, I don't want it running all the time, it has something to do with missing ice caps. So I want to build a button that attaches to the machine via, say, usb that when pushed shuts the machine down. By a button I mean that sort of emergency shutdown button that is usually red and used in industrial control, the sort of thing the hero always has to push to save the heroine/world. don't know about the James Bond stuff - you'd probably also need an lcd countdown where the button only works if you press it on 007... anyway, you probably don't want to go exactly the way of the industrial Emergency Stop, as it's a hardware cutoff - ie. power is shut of straight away, without any software intervention. Your disks will probably survive the unclean unmounts, and you power supply may handle the voltage / frequency spikes from the switch opening, but why bother? If you really want, you can pick them up from any electrical distributer (in Australia anyway)... Does anyone here have enough hardware design knowledge to say if this would be easy or not and as to whether I should just lower my sights and stick to the three finger salute or the normal on/off switch? If I were you, I'd want to stay with the ACPI power button, most popular OS's can detect this nicely. What you can do is this: - splice the power switch cable (the motherboard/case one, NOT the power supply side!). The button works by completing a circuit to the motherboard when pressed, so you can have two buttons doing the same thing on the same circuit. Join a new wire of each of the two existing wires. (Inside your case, they're usually labelled PWRSW or something). - buy any sort of big red button (normally open, non latching) and wire it to the two new wires. I have a nice arcade fire button which would do the trick. - stick it on the top / front of your case with a sign saying PRESS ME (or maybe don't touch if you want to go for the reverse psychology angle...) voila! p.s. The main reason driving this is that the wife never turns the server off. If I have a Big Red Switch, I can say But it has a big red switch, how can you miss it you could try some reNedufication, or perhaps a script that detects how many users are logged in and for how long, and then shutdown automatically. Or just shutdown at midnight (or whatever time she's guaranteed not to be on... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au fortune: cannot execute. Out of cookies. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
Don't mean to hijack this thread, but my situation is probably similar to the OP. On Friday 15 September 2006 02:57, Daniel Iliev wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Finally, if it still doesn't work, post what you see from tail -f /var/log/messages or whatever your syslog is, when you press the power button. ACPI event unhandled: button/sleep C1A3 0080 0001 You have to activate button under ACPI in the kernel: I have this activated, but nothing happens other than the unhandled event error above. After emergeing acpid and runing it, you should have shutdown now mapped to your power button. I would rather have hibernate mapped to it. How? PS. I think that sleep (save to RAM) does not work on this laptop, not when X is running anyway. -- Regards, Mick pgpoBmqJf3LBw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Friday 15 September 2006 12:47, Mick wrote: Don't mean to hijack this thread, but my situation is probably similar to the OP. On Friday 15 September 2006 02:57, Daniel Iliev wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: Finally, if it still doesn't work, post what you see from tail -f /var/log/messages or whatever your syslog is, when you press the power button. ACPI event unhandled: button/sleep C1A3 0080 0001 You have to activate button under ACPI in the kernel: I have this activated, but nothing happens other than the unhandled event error above. After emergeing acpid and runing it, you should have shutdown now mapped to your power button. I would rather have hibernate mapped to it. How? PS. I think that sleep (save to RAM) does not work on this laptop, not when X is running anyway. Perhaps [1] will give you a clue. Otherwise feel free to ask again. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Shutdown_headless_server_when_power-button_pressed -- Bo Andresen pgpN5eFaMpprp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Friday 15 September 2006 11:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Perhaps [1] will give you a clue. Otherwise feel free to ask again. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Shutdown_headless_server_when_power-button_pre ssed Thanks! I hadn't spotted this article. I've tried adding the following two lines in /etc/acpid/event/default but nothing much happened (as per the log further down): event=button[ /]power.* action=/usr/sbin/hibernate-ram This is the log: == /var/log/acpid == [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] received event button/sleep C1A3 0080 0006 [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] executing action /etc/acpi/default.sh button/sleep C1A3 0080 0006 [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] END HANDLER MESSAGES [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] action exited with status 0 [Fri Sep 15 19:59:26 2006] completed event button/sleep C1A3 0080 0006 == /var/log/messages == Sep 15 19:59:26 lappy logger: ACPI event unhandled: button/sleep C1A3 0080 0006 Sep 15 19:59:26 lappy logger: ACPI event unhandled: button/sleep C1A3 0080 0006 It's as if the two lines I've added were ignored. This is what dmesg shows about C1A3: # dmesg | grep -i C1A3 ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [C1A3] C052 C17E C185 C0A4 C0AA C19F C1A0 C1A3 C1A4 What now? -- Regards, Mick pgpePFOKZf28v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
2006/9/15, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Friday 15 September 2006 11:58, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
Thanks! I hadn't spotted this article. I've tried adding the following two
lines in /etc/acpid/event/default but nothing much happened (as per the log
further down):
event=button[ /]power.*
action=/usr/sbin/hibernate-ram
Well, my configuration slightly differs from your one.
--- /etc/acpid/events/default
event=.*
action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e
--- /etc/acpid/default.sh
set $*
group=${1/\/*/}
action=${1/*\//}
case $group in
button)
case $action in
power) echo disk /sys/power/state
;;
sleep) echo disk /sys/power/state
;;
*) logger ACPI action $action is not defined
;;
esac
;;
*)
logger ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined
;;
esac
button/power and button/sleep are _not_ the same and as the log tells
us, it's a button/sleep event. If I get this right, in your
configuration, only a button/power is handeled.
Regards,
Nico
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Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Friday 15 September 2006 21:18, Nico Schümann wrote:
Well, my configuration slightly differs from your one.
--- /etc/acpid/events/default
event=.*
action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e
No it doesn't really. The default entries in mine were as you show above. I
just followed the comments in the file to separately define what should
happen when the power button is pressed, but it didn't work anyway.
--- /etc/acpid/default.sh
set $*
group=${1/\/*/}
action=${1/*\//}
case $group in
button)
case $action in
power) echo disk /sys/power/state
;;
sleep) echo disk /sys/power/state
;;
*) logger ACPI action $action is not
defined ;;
esac
;;
*)
logger ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined
;;
esac
button/power and button/sleep are _not_ the same and as the log tells
us, it's a button/sleep event. If I get this right, in your
configuration, only a button/power is handeled.
What/who determines what goes in /etc/acpid/default.sh? This is what's in
mine:
===
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/default.sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
set $*
group=${1/\/*/}
action=${1/*\//}
device=$2
id=$3
value=$4
log_unhandled() {
logger ACPI event unhandled: $*
}
case $group in
button)
case $action in
power)
/sbin/init 0
;;
# if your laptop doesnt turn on/off the display via
hardware
# switch and instead just generates an acpi event, you
can force
# X to turn off the display via dpms. note you will
have to run
# 'xhost +local:0' so root can access the X DISPLAY.
#lid)
# xset dpms force off
# ;;
*) log_unhandled $* ;;
esac
;;
ac_adapter)
case $value in
# Add code here to handle when the system is unplugged
# (maybe change cpu scaling to powersave mode)
#*0)
# ;;
# Add code here to handle when the system is plugged
in
# (maybe change cpu scaling to performance mode)
#*1)
# ;;
*) log_unhandled $* ;;
esac
;;
*) log_unhandled $* ;;
esac
===
I don't really understand what this script is telling me. :-(
--
Regards,
Mick
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Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On 9/15/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: case $group in button) case $action in power) /sbin/init 0 ;; You need to add a sleep case here to do whatever you want to happen when you press the pwer button... *) log_unhandled $* ;; ...or this case is executed. The log_unhandled function generates a message in the form of: ACPI event unhandled: button/foo Sound familiar? ;-) So if you want power to shutdown nicely, try adding: sleep) /sbin/init 0 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
The Big Red Button - was Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
Ryan Tandy wrote: rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box rob # emerge sys-power/acpid # rc-update add acpid default # /etc/init.d/acpid start and you're done! The default configuration for acpid includes a handler for the power button event. HTH. Just a slight hijacking of this topic, I have a little EPIA server acting as firewall, npt, dhcp, dns,etc,etc. Now even though it doesn't pull a lot of power, I don't want it running all the time, it has something to do with missing ice caps. So I want to build a button that attaches to the machine via, say, usb that when pushed shuts the machine down. By a button I mean that sort of emergency shutdown button that is usually red and used in industrial control, the sort of thing the hero always has to push to save the heroine/world. Does anyone here have enough hardware design knowledge to say if this would be easy or not and as to whether I should just lower my sights and stick to the three finger salute or the normal on/off switch? Regards, Andrew p.s. The main reason driving this is that the wife never turns the server off. If I have a Big Red Switch, I can say But it has a big red switch, how can you miss it -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
Press and hold in for 3-5 seconds, that is a hard shutdown if it wont turn off George On 14/09/06, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:17 -0400, rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box What happens now when you press the power button? What does your syslog say? First of all, you need an ATX motherboard. (Any motherboard newer than about 7/8 or so years ago). Then you need ACPI compiled into your kernel, as well as `emerge acpid`. Finally, if it still doesn't work, post what you see from tail -f /var/log/messages or whatever your syslog is, when you press the power button. post back if that doesn't work! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If you fail to plan, plan to fail. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box rob # emerge sys-power/acpid # rc-update add acpid default # /etc/init.d/acpid start and you're done! The default configuration for acpid includes a handler for the power button event. HTH. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power butten
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:17 -0400, rob wrote: How do you get power pitten to shutdown and power off Gentoo box What happens now when you press the power button? What does your syslog say? First of all, you need an ATX motherboard. (Any motherboard newer than about 7/8 or so years ago). Then you need ACPI compiled into your kernel, as well as `emerge acpid`. Finally, if it still doesn't work, post what you see from tail -f /var/log/messages or whatever your syslog is, when you press the power button. post back if that doesn't work! Only a small addition to Mr. Iain Buchanan's reply. You have to activate button under ACPI in the kernel: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig - Power management options (ACPI, APM) - ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support - Button * here say YES After emergeing acpid and runing it, you should have shutdown now mapped to your power button. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
