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Dennis Lou wrote:
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<pre wrap="">From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ggalt@comcast.net">ggalt@comcast.net</a>
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<pre wrap="">I'm trying to improve the WAF factor of MythTV.
I have a headless system at home
(FC1 and Alex's RPMs with a PVR-350) that remains on
all the time. The problem
is that we occassionally get significant
thunderstorms and power outages/surges.
Usually, if I'm home and a big storm is on, I
simply remotely log into the box
and power it down -- this is beyond my
wife's capabilities
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Why doesn't she just hit the power button on the
box? Or do you not have it correctly configured
to execute the poweroff command?
-Dennis
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This is exactly what I did for my myth box running FC1. If you are
using lilo, then just modify /etc/lilo.conf and add "acpi=on" to the
append line like this:<br>
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<tt>----------------------------------------------- snip
-----------------------------------------<br>
image=/boot/vmlinuz<br>
label="linux"<br>
root=/dev/hda5<br>
initrd=/boot/initrd.img<br>
append="quiet <b>acpi=on</b> ....."<br>
vga=791<br>
read-only<br>
----------------------------------------------- snip
-----------------------------------------</tt><br>
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Then, execute the /sbin/lilo to activate the change:<br>
# /sbin/lilo<br>
:<br>
:<br>
# shutdown -r now<br>
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When the computer starts to boot up, go to the BIOS settings and ensure
that the power button event or something like that is enabled. It
should be under the Power Management settings. Save the changes and
reboot the computer.<br>
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When the box boots up completely, try pressing the "Power" button on
the computer and you'll see that it shuts down and power off the box
cleanly.<br>
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Cheers<br>
KianTeck<br>
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