From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753646AbYIQLp5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:45:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751979AbYIQLpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:45:49 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:56314 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751698AbYIQLpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:45:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:18:09 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andrew Paprocki Cc: LKML Subject: Re: ACPI "Soft-off" power button only rebooting system, not powering off Message-ID: <20080917101809.GA4771@elf.ucw.cz> References: <76366b180809162150o51701a1fk209af4e84ffc5674@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <76366b180809162150o51701a1fk209af4e84ffc5674@mail.gmail.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed 2008-09-17 00:50:03, Andrew Paprocki wrote: > I have an AMD / Award BIOS based system which does not properly shut > off when I hold down the power button for 4 seconds. The BIOS is > configured to have "Soft-off" set to "Delay for 4 seconds" which is > supposed to power the machine off if the button is held that long. > > I first thought this could be a BIOS bug, but this *only* appears to > happen while Linux is running. If the computer is running WinXP, it Well, so the BIOS is broken. 4second hold should power down the machine regardless of the operating system. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html