On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On many machines now, the power switch invokes a shutdown dialog, > instead of simply powering the machine off with no warning--see the > GNOME power-management applet's dialog. On my wife's Dell Dimension, I > haven't even been able to locate a reset button--the only thing on the > front panel available to press is the power button. No reset button on > any of my laptops, either. > But you can normally do a hard power-off by keeping the power button pressed for 4 seconds; this cuts off power rather than generating an ACPI event. -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora • salimma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MacPorts • hircus@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list