[plug] Power down

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Thu Jan 15 05:21:21 WST 2004


Arie Hol wrote:

| On my system - bios gives options ;
| 
| 1 - Press power button for 3 seconds to switch off
| 2 - Press power button for instant off

AIUI these can be overridden by the power management code in the OS,
e.g. to shut the machine down nicely or run software suspend when you
hit the power button.  I'm also not sure whether this has an effect on
the situations when the machine is Really Crashed.

Cameron.




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