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Date:      Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:30:43 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: soft off powerbutton
Message-ID:  <20051012033043.GA6933@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20051012032216.GA25323@neptune.atopia.net>
References:  <20051012025904.GA24826@neptune.atopia.net> <20051012032216.GA25323@neptune.atopia.net>

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:22:16PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:59:04PM -0400, Dan Ponte <dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Has anything changed wrt: soft off via the ACPI power button? It used to
> > work on 6-BETA4, but I upgraded to RC1 and now it just dumps me to ddb
> > when I press the button. This is an ASUS CUSL2.
> > 
> > supermachine# uname -a
> > FreeBSD supermachine.danponte.net 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #10: Mon Oct
> > 10 14:47:38 EDT 2005
> > (sources CVSupped from RELENG_6 only a few hours before the build time)
> > -Dan
> Err, disregard that....turns out the culprit was a change to the module
> interface or somesuch that caused the system to crash when rtc.ko was
> unloaded (which was out of sync with the new kernel).
> Sorry to waste everyone's time.

You may have come across a handy feature, maybe we should add

hw.acpi.power_button_state: DDB

:)



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