Pushing the button momentarily should power down the board if the SW supports it. If it does not, then it needs to be fixed. It does work as far as I know on the image we ship with the board.
Gerald On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 8:11 PM, ags <alfred.g.schm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've read what documentation I could find about powering down the BBB. > Clearly shutdown -now in a ssh session is safe. Clearly pulling the power > is not. > > Pushing the power button momentarily does nothing. Documentation says that > "software is needed to sense and respond" to this action. I presume this > means that said software is not part of the Angstrom distribution that > shipped (before the switch to Debian). Pushing and holding the power button > does cause a power down. > > Question1: Is push-and hold of the power button a safe shutdown method, or > is it similar to just pulling the plug? > Question2: If push-and-hold is not safe, has anyone (and distro) developed > the software necessary to sense a button push and initiate a safe power > down? > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
