[plug] Power down

[Cameron Patrick]

Brad Campbell wrote:

| >APM gets enabled by the kernel regardless (if you have APM compiled in 
| >and you have a BIOS that supports APM).

Hmm, I'm not convinced.  From "make menuconfig" in 2.6.0:

	ONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE:

	Enable APM features at boot time.

It defaults to off.

| >ACPI can do really cool things in combination like acpid, like have the 
| >power switch trigger a software suspend instead of a powerdown.

The laptop I'm typing this on does precisely that.  The lid switch locks
the X display.

| Man I need some coffee, my coherency is somewhat lacking but I'm sure you 
| get the idea.

Yeah, I got the idea.  Your coherency is at least as good and probably
an awful lot better than mine at the moment.  I also apolgise for any
typos in this and other mesages in the following week as the laptop has
a truly awful keyboard and the latency to my DSL line in Perth makes
fixing mistakes more painful than it would otherwise be.

Cameron.