Re: power switch on ATX boards
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 10:30:56PM +0000, Christoph Baumann wrote:
> > Hi!
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> > Thanks for the answers to my question. I got a solution now.
> > I toggled the setting for the power switch from "soft-off" to "suspend"
> > in the BIOS. Then I "hacked" the apm_bios.c kernel source so that it calls
> > shutdown instead of invoking the suspend mode. This may be a bit "illegal"
> > but it works.
>
> Cool idea! I would like to have something like that for our PC-Lab in
> university. Would you mind making the patch available to the public (for
> example to linuxpatches.rock-projects.com)?
>
> I really do not like students to power down our workstations as we are running
> pvm on them...
Yes, very cool indeed. But could it be possible to patch apm_bios.{c,h}
(or whatever) so that it understands the "soft-off" signal, too? That
way it wouldn't even require any nasty changes in the bios setup.
Remco
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