Re: power button dell inspiron 4000

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

Tim Connors wrote:
> 
> One annoying um, feature, of the dell laptop, is the ability to shut down
> immediately upon pressing the power button. I have not found anything on
> the web to disable the power button (seems there are lots of references to
> toshiba laptops though), has anyone else found anything useful?
> 
> Unfortuneatly, there is nothing in the bios that says "power
> switch==off/suspend" - is there a newer bios that fixes this?
> 
If dmesg pumps out something like this, then APM is enabled in the
kernel.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)

Edit /etc/lilo.conf
image=/vmlinuz
	label=Linux
	read-only
	append="apm=on"
#	restricted
#	alias=1

Add the append line. Then when you halt, APM will shutoff the machine.

Hope this helps,
Eric