[ltp] How to get rid of the delay on power button key events ?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Jens Rutschmann wrote:
> It took my quite some coincidence to figure out that one has to press it 
> for (half) a second or so until both ACPI and keypress events are 
> triggered. In fact I was frustrated when it was still not working when I 
> was trying 2.6.25-rc7 and so I kept my finger on it while running 
> "input-events" - pure luck.

No such luck. That's how it is supposed to work, and you can't tell the BIOS
to work otherwise.  The only thing I've seen a brief touch do is to wake the
box up, but that's about it.

> I'm always afraid of holding it down to long and switching the machine off thereby.

The difference from soft power off to hard power off is above EIGHT seconds,
there is no need to be afraid.

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  Henrique Holschuh