[olpc-help] SD card usage

Paul Fox pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us
Thu Apr 24 12:29:54 EDT 2008


richard wrote:
 > >   > Press and hold of the power button will force a power off.
 > >
 > >  are you referring to the existing hard poweroff?  if it's now 3
 > >  stages (i.e., suspend, soft-shutdown, hard-poweroff), what are
 > >  the timings for the button push?  or perhaps soft shutdown is
 > >  still only available from the menu?
 > 
 > Yes the power button only has 2 stages.  Shorter presses will toggle
 > suspend.  Press and hold for several seconds ( I don't remember the
 > exact number) will trigger the EC to do a hard power off.
 > 
 > The shutdown option is still available from the menu and starts a
 > normal shutdown.  ie 'shutdown -h now'

gotcha -- thanks.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 70.3 degrees)


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