temp, fan, battery monitoring etc. My guess is you won't miss it at all. ACPI isn't the only way to monitor those things mind you, many motherboards have some built in sensors that something like lm_sensors can read. My guess is you've got a buggy acpi bios or kernel driver. It could be something like a faulty switch or something as well, who knows. On Dec 27, 2007 5:30 PM, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > Yep, I disabled it in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/events, however I'm still > receiving them and that makes me nervous, especially since it halted > last weekend after I thought I had this changed. What would I miss by > not having acpi? > > Ben wrote: > > If its a "server" and should be always on, you could disable that > > particular nugget of ACPI (I am assuming you're using acpi for other > > stuff like thermal zone monitoring etc. > > > > Take a peek at your /etc/acpi/events/ directory you should be able to > > modify some stuff in there to cause the power button event from doing > > anything. I also suspect there is a way to disable it at the kernel > > level it would depend on your kernel though I think. > > > > If you don't care about any acpi functionality you can pass something > > like "acpi=off" to your kernel via grub/lilo. > > > > On Dec 27, 2007 8:22 AM, Jon Schewe < jpschewe at mtu.net > > <mailto:jpschewe at mtu.net>> wrote: > > > > I've got a Dell 690 server that is receiving phantom button/power > > messages in acpid and causing the machine to reboot sometimes. I've > > disabled the power button message in the acpi events file, however > > this > > is still concerning. Anyone got a clue about this? My other Dell > > 690s > > are fine. The major difference between this one and the others is > > that > > it has 32GB of RAM instead of 4GB. > > Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: received event "button/power PWRF > > 00000080 > > 00000001" > > Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3585[0:0] > > Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: notifying client 3102[101:102] > > Dec 22 20:15:14 bolt [acpid]: completed event "button/power PWRF > > 00000080 00000001" > > > > -- > > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> < > http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> > > If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital > > signature. > > See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. > > > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ben Lutgens > > Linux / Unix Sysadmin > > -- > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe <http://mtu.net/%7Ejpschewe> > If you see an attachment named signature.asc, this is my digital > signature. > See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > > -- Ben Lutgens Linux / Unix Sysadmin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071227/cb4c3b78/attachment.htm