[Techtalk] Automatic shutdown when pressing power button

[Therese Gustafsson]

Wim De Smet wrote:
> Now linux has specific modules to "catch" these events and send them
> to a userspace program (something that's not part of the kernel). The
> first thing you'd need to do is verify the following:
> - is the "button" kernel module being loaded (check with lsmod | grep
> button)
> - is the acpid program installed and working? (ps -A | grep acpi)
> - is it taking the right action for the powerbutton?
>
> The first 2 are pretty trivial since you can load the module manually
> (modprobe button) and put it in /etc/modules, if acpid is not
> installed you can do aptitude install acpid or something similar with
> your favourite apt front-end. The last part is a bit tricky since
> there are several ways this could work.
>
> You mentioned you switched to fluxbox from gnome, maybe all acpid does
> is pass the event to hal which passes the event to gnome which does
> the shutdown. The event is normally configured in /etc/acpi/events.
> Could be that there's a package which does what you want when you
> install it though so you could do a search for 'acpi' first (aptitude
> search acpi for instance). Otherwise you can just edit the 'action'
> part to point to a script of your making or that is still available on
> your system (in /etc/acpi typically) and do it there.
>
> I hope that gets you on the right track, I tried to search ubuntu.com
> for something about this but didn't immediately come up with anything.
>
> HTH,
> Wim
>

Hi!

Thanks for the great explanation. acpid wasn't installed, so I installed
it and checked that the "button" module was loaded and that the
powerbutton event was configured and that was it. It works again! Yay!

/Tiera