Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Monday 2008-02-11 at 14:37 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
On my machine with ACPI in use I just hit the power button once. > > Can't get any shorter then that. :-) And then you do that to someone else's machine, and f*CK up their filesystems with massive corruption. Do that on a commercial worksite, and you're liable to find yourself looking for a new job.
I would fire instead the administrator that set up the bios of that computer, allowing it to power of instantly, instead of waiting for 4 seconds.
Even with 4 seconds, things can be left hanging
That's not the point.
The point is that by touching once the power off button you are generating an acpi event which is interpreted by the kernel as a signal that the user wants to power off orderly. Such a touch must not power off instantly any PC. To forcelly poweroff you have to press the button and keep it pressed for 4 seconds, or pull the cable.
Oh, yeah, i see what you mean.\ It's been so long since I've had or worked on any machine which did NOT require long push down to turn off power that I had completely forgot about the difference. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org