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

[Jens Rutschmann]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb am 28.03.2008 23:30:
> 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.

OK, thanks for the info.

> 
>> 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.
> 

That's good to know. I had those "kill-the-machine-after-4-seconds" settings 
from my desktop BIOSes in mind. Did not know that there is so much difference 
between the power off methods in thinkpads.