David Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would anyone be good enough to help a DragonFly newbie with an ACPI > question? > > I'm trying to get the front-panel power button to shut the system down > (cleanly). Currently when I press it, nothing discernible happens (no > console messages, nothing logged, and certainly no shutdown). > > shutdown -p now, and > acpiconf -s 5
You might try: sysctl -w hw.acpi.power_button_state=S5 Johannes > > both work just fine, which makes me think nothing's fundamentally broken. > > My BIOS offers me either "soft off" or "suspend" for the front panel > button. I expect I want soft off, but I have tried both. > > Setting hw.acpi.verbose=1 doesn't seem to tease out any more diagnostics. > > The acpi module seems to be loading okay at boot time > > /modules/acpi.ko text=0x47358 data=0x188c+0xb38 > syms=[0x4+0x6490+0x4+0x7ebd] > > and it successfully probes the power button > > acpi0: Power Button (fixed) > Warning: ACPI is disabling APM's device. You can't run both > [...] > acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 > > Unfortunately the ACPI man pages don't have much to say about the power > button, and I can't find anything pertinent in the mailing list archive. > > Can anyone suggest what I might do to diagnose what's going on? I'll > happily provide more info, if it helps. > > Many thanks in advance! > >
