Re: ACPI thoughts

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:18:00 +0100


On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 05:15:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Does APM support catching soft power-off on ATX boards too? It would be
> > very cool if my PC shut down properly when the power switch is pressed
> > (like most workstations do). I know that ACPI covers soft power off, is
> > it possible to implement it without ACPI (all motherboards I own unfortunately
> > don't have real ACPI bios)
>
> What chipsets do you have, if you are feeling adventurous then the SiS
> docs at least tell you how to use the acpi related hardware directly

Gigabyte SMP boards. I looked at Gigabyte's www site but couldn't find
any technical documentation about the board.

-Andi

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