On Wed, 2005-27-04 at 21:17 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On 4/27/05, Gerry Tool <gstool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I see the same behaviour, but can't answer the other questions. > > Deliberately making it act this way doesn't seem sensible. > > For 'modern' hardware with operational acpi the power button does a > clean shutdown, so there is an argument to be made for this being a > forward looking default. I'm not really concerned about arguing about > default behavior i just want to know how to re-enable it for my older > hardware as needed and whether or not this needs to be filed if this > is actually a bug. If this is an intended change in default behavior, > I'll let other people light the torches and wave around pitchforks > while lusting for the sticky sweet blood of developers. I'll gladly > settle for learning how to reconfigure options as needed so I can get > a shutdown back on my gdm login for my older non-acpi hardware. > > -jef"my k6-2 box is definitely not going to have a soft reboot when > the power button is hit"spaleta This assumes that you want to allow the machine to be shutdown when the power button is pressed. It may be a reasonable assumption but the power button may not be accessible or may be disabled. In any case the option should be available to the administrator to decide.