Can't get power button to work
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(08-27-2016, 10:11 PM)MarkHaysHarris777 Wrote: With debian the power button click is nasty! it puts the PineA64 board to sleep for which there is no recovery (well, except power removal );  however, if you HOLD the power button with debian running , then you will receive the debian normal 'shutdown dialogue'.  Its sweet, but, just remember to hold the power, don't just click it.

Your debian comments are directed more when running as a GUI/desktop box, aren't they? As with a headless/console config, the power button will do zilch/nada/nothing if you press or tap it, unless you specifically add a monitor for it. And naturally, if you hold it for ~10 seconds, it will do a forced power off. 

I had thought about adding another female header to the pine next to the one for the IR receiver for the LEDs, but since the board doesn't use 2.54mm spacing for the LEDs (instead 2mm, center to center), a female header wouldn't fit, and a male one would need a bit too much bending for my liking. Thus plus the holes were a bit small for the thickness of bog standard 2.54mm spaced headers. I do have some of the round smaller pitch headers, but that would just have been a pain, as it would have been the only connector using it. Might as well just use the header pin on the EXP header... it's already there!

Hey Mark, did you mentioned something earlier about Android doing the same as the debian GUI... i.e. go to sleep with power off / hard reset being the only way to get the system responsive again? I had an earlier android build from a few months ago that I just booted up again, and it was being that way, but I could sort of get it to respond again when unplugging the mouse, and plugging it in just after hitting the power button to resume the pine64 from standby... 

And with the latest v5.1.1 8GB image, it seems to work perfectly... goes to sleep, wakes up, goes to sleep, wakes up. Having a power meter monitoring the pine when doing that sort of test is handy, as you can get a sense of if the pine has gone zombie, or is trying to respond, but just not getting all the way there. 

Sorry for the slightly OT post Aiden! Big Grin


Messages In This Thread
Can't get power button to work - by AidenH - 08-27-2016, 08:46 PM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by pfeerick - 08-27-2016, 09:11 PM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by pfeerick - 08-27-2016, 10:58 PM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by pfeerick - 08-28-2016, 01:08 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by AidenH - 08-27-2016, 11:38 PM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by AidenH - 08-28-2016, 02:45 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by pfeerick - 08-28-2016, 04:07 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by AidenH - 08-28-2016, 04:49 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by AidenH - 08-28-2016, 05:10 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by DonFL - 08-28-2016, 05:13 AM
RE: Can't get power button to work - by DonFL - 08-28-2016, 07:19 AM

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