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Use cubieboard power button for poweroff on Debian
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Use cubieboard power button for poweroff on Debian

install acpid

sudo apt-get install acpid

listen on power button press and execute powerbtn.sh

pico /etc/acpi/events/power

File contents:

	event=button/power
	action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh %e

script that can handle all the button actions for now it poweroffs the cubieboard

pico /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

File contents:

	exec poweroff

make the script executable

chmod +x /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

start acpi listener on system start

pico /etc/init/acpid.conf

File contents:

	exec acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
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