laptop power button advise

[koder]

Pressing and holding the power button to power the computer on any
contemporary desktop or laptop prevents the OS from writing the
information it needs to store to do a graceful shutdown. 

That process is only used if you have a severe lockup. It has the
possibility and perhaps even probability of leaving your system in an
unstable condition when you power it back up.

I would opine that leaving a text document open in the background falls
in the category of a real kludge. I have not looked at it but I know
Linux uses scripts to shut system down. You should be able to modify
them to function as you desire, in this case ask you if you want to shut
down or not giving you the option of aborting shutdown.

Disabling the power button will sooner or later leave you with a system
that will have to have the battery removed to turn it off. Very
undesirable.

Try looking for the file power.sh
I found mine in /etc/acpi/ on my Ubuntu 7.04 system

Here is an article on the acpid daemon that seems to interface with the
power button.

http://www.hscripts.com/tutorials/linux-services/acpid.html

Hope that is of some use.

Harold


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From: Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: laptop power button advise
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:09:23 -0700

Historically most BIOS's have a way to set whether the power button is
an instant off or one that requires you to hold the button depressed
for a number of seconds (usually 15).  So you might want to check
yours.  Personally, I think the default should require holding the
button in for a time.

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I discovered how to make it so a laptop won't power off if the power
> button is accidently pressesd! What I do is open a text document and
> do something to it that will make it prompt you if you want to save it
> before it closes. That way if the power buttoon is pressed it will
> give you the prompt and then (for my computer) I wait for a question
> whether I WANT to shut down everything immediately.
>
> Does anyone know how to make it so the power button will not turn off
> a lapto? I have a tohiba satellite m-36x . Google was of little help.
>
>
>
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