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Offline si_hussain1

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query about acpi
« on: October 29, 2009, 03:43:37 AM »
Hi,
    I need to have an acpi option where , when the power button is pressed, i should be able to pop up a shutdown menu. How do i do that? any suggestions ?

Thanks

Offline Juanito

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Re: query about acpi
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2009, 04:11:45 AM »
the acpid extension will allow various acpi events to trigger the execution of a script - bigpcman made several posts about this.

Offline si_hussain1

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Re: query about acpi
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2009, 04:56:29 AM »
I will take a look at that. Thanks for giving me a pointer.

Offline si_hussain1

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Re: query about acpi
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 05:53:02 AM »
It worked. I just had to configure the acpi event for power button.