[debian] Re: disable power-button

ant at truebox.co.uk ant at truebox.co.uk
Mon Jan 12 10:49:36 CET 2009


The GTA02 isn't too hard to dismantle - four screws and a stiff 
thumbnail/guitar pick - so you could just /remove/ the power button - IIRC 
it's just a plastic moulding slipped in over the microswitch. Cover the hole 
with some tape and off you go.

On Friday 09 January 2009 16:26:56 Davide Scaini wrote:
> I was interested in something similar... I could I change the action of the
> single-press power button? i would like to do something more than just
> supend (like switch down the wifi with wmiconfig that works reliably for
> me) is that something embedded in kernel like the shutdown?
> thanks in advance for your reply
> d
>
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:26 PM, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
> > > Actually, the kernel will call shutdown if the power is held for 8
> > > seconds.
> >
> > ah! wasn't sure about that -- i sort of hoped, fso would consume the key
> > press and do it's own stuff to shutdown.
> >






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