Hi, you are right, this is handelt by ACPI You´ll first need to check your BIOS settings. Look for something like "Power button" with 2 possible settings - instant power off and wait 4s.
If you set that option to wait, a short press on the power button triggers an event and a default install of acpid (daemon has to be running, of course) should shutdown your system. I think this should be what you want. If it fails, check your Kernel apci settings (like CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON), you found already the right wiki page. Michael Am Dienstag, 11. September 2012, 23:22:38 schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I recently did a ground up rebuild of my little media computer. When it > was running I used to push the power button to initiate a shutdown. I > now can't remember what I had to fiddle to achieve this so that I can > replicate this on my rebuilt box. Is the accepted way to do this as per > the ACPI/Configuration page, > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/ACPI/Configuration > > in the wiki? I have seen some other stuff in portage concerning buttons > on laptops but I have hazy recollections of doing the above on the box > in question. > > Thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew
