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Re: Configure power button to shutdown



On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am using an old mac mini powerpc G4 for UPnP server (minidlna), no
> mouse, no keyboard plugged in. What I would like is a simple way to
> shutdown cleanly the box (if my laptop is around I can ssh + shutdown
> it).
>
> On typical x86, there is an ACPI mecanism which can be tweaked easily
> [*]. However this is much more complex on powerpc based box.
>
> Does anyone knows:
> - What is the event triggered when I press the power button ?
> - How do I map this event to `pbbuttonsd` action ?

I prepared a patch for pbbuttonsd see:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774634

Since I also adopted pbbuttonsd I'll push the patch in debian package,
after the freeze.

2cts


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