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Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills machine not X. ACPI?
From: Alex Bennee <alex@braddahead.com>
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> Some chipset vendor had the bright idea to make that the 'quick power
> off' sequence.  I think Egbert Eich (cc'd) came up with a hack to
> stop it.

Well I'm running a Gigabyte GA-8STXCFS which is using the
SiS645DX/SiS962L chipset. I'll certainly give the patch a spin if anyone
can throw me a pointer.

I was under the impression that once  Linux took over from the BIOS it
had complete control of the system, including the interrupt/exception
table. I am assuming some sort of interrupt or exception must be being
generated by this keypress that runs some BIOS code. Is this is the case
is that not a "Bad Thing", ACPI/APM issues aside shouldn't the kernel
only run code *it wants to*.

-- 
Alex Bennee
Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd
The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my
employer

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