Bug 87710 – power button doesn't work as expected

Bug 87710 - power button doesn't work as expected

Summary:	power button doesn't work as expected

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
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Reported:	2003-04-01 12:14 EST by Carlos Morgado
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-06-08 10:58:59 EDT
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Description Carlos Morgado 2003-04-01 12:14:43 EST

The power button of the Toshiba Satellite 3600 is 'soft off' 
so you are supposed to press it for 4 seconds to make it
poweroff. 
With kernel-2.4.20-8 a simple touch to power button turns
it off. This is due to lack of ACPI.

Expected: 
Single touch doesn't do anything, you get reminded there's no
hybernate function

Actual result:
Single touch power off machine == crash

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 2003-04-01 12:23:05 EST

what kind of crash?   Oops?

Comment 2 Carlos Morgado 2003-04-01 12:42:11 EST

Sorry, I meant "power off machine equals crash", as in the machine turns power
off stone cold dead.

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2003-04-11 09:40:50 EDT

"push power button"  -> "machine powers off"

that sounds just like what I would expect from a power button.....

Comment 4 Carlos Morgado 2003-05-16 09:30:45 EDT

No, "press the button 4 seconds" -> "machine powers off" is what is expected for
this machine. For power up you also need to press for a couple of seconds.
A single touch is supposed to do nothing or sleep/hibernate/whatever.

Comment 5 Alan Cox 2003-06-08 10:58:59 EDT

Thats BIOS controlled so beyond our ability to fix. When ACPI is ready enough I
suspect the ACPI kernel will solve this for you

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