Blinking red battery light on XO-1

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:38:05PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> quozl at laptop.org said:
> > To avoid it powering off, type lid-off and press enter.  Yes, you only have
> > eight seconds to do this. 
> 
> The printout said that, but I didn't even get started typing before
> it timed out.

Yes, but I wanted you to be ready to have to do it.

> I'm not sure where 8 seconds came from.  If that happened often
> enough I'd probably be able to do it fast enough.  But that was the
> first time I had seen it.  I wasn't quick enough to read and
> understand and type.  Remember, I was trying to not destroy the
> evidence so I was going slowly.

Sure, not a criticism, just making sure you have the tools you need.

The eight seconds comes from here:

http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openfirmware/browser/dev/olpc/lid.fth#L6

There's a two second delay before the message appears.

The timer starts as soon as ok is printed.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/