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  From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
  To  : Chris Worley <cworley@symbionsys.com>
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  Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 22:17:22 -0700

Re: Using power switch to go into standby mode

> The bios has a setting: 
> 
>   soft-off by PWRBTN: [delay 4 sec | Instant-Off]
> 
> Setting it to "Instant-off", the default, behaves like you describe. 
> The kernel gets the power-off message, but can't do anything to stop it.
> 
> If I set it to "delay 4 sec", then I get a suspend message instead. 

Curious in its own right.


> This brings about other problems: The pegasus USB nic driver goes nuts
> (recursive panics), 

Unplugging the adapter should work around that, but I'd also
be sure to run at least 2.4.0-test4 (which is where I think
a batch of pegasus updates landed).  Or at least its USB code.


>    and a "resume" message is sent from the bios about
> five seconds after the suspend is sent.

That's odd ... it should be exactly four seconds!

- Dave