oh, I get it, I was thinking of a power-off switch to cut power. yes, all alix boards have a switch S1 (on some models it is not populated, but one could solder it there)
-Michael 2010/9/23 Andreas Delleske <[email protected]> > Dear Edgar, > > >> I am a newbie, so maybe my question is a little stupid :( ... but anyone > >> knows how to connect a power button to the alix2dX board? > >> > >> I have connected a hard drive to this board and would be great to > shutdown > >> the operating system gracefully. > > > there is no such thing as a power button on the alix2 boards, they're > > intended to run 24/7. > > Well there IS an option (for ALIX 3D3 at least) to solder a power > button to the ALIX as ALIX has a general purpose I/O. > > http://www.twam.info/linux/gpio-on-alix3d3 > > http://voyage-linux.34677.n3.nabble.com/Fwd-What-about-GPIO-support-for-ALIX-3D3-td875443.html > > You might then provide a daemon or something else to detect operation > / processing interrupt (if possible?) of the switch and then shutdown > -h now. > > The following is for the WRAP board, so maybe not useful for the ALIX: > > http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wrap_switches&s=gpio > > I did not try anything like that, I'm only using the LED and they work > fine. > > I think this might be a useful option to implement or research in > future voyage versions, as we might usw ALIX with VGA as a lightweight > terminel (see LTSP project: > > https://wiki.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/KIPwiki/index.php/EDV:LTSP/alix3d3 > - in German) > -- > Kind regards > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux >
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