laptop will not shut down completely under Ubuntu 7.04
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laptop will not shut down completely under Ubuntu 7.04
Hi
I dusted of my older laptop and installed Ubuntu 7.04 on it.
It is an Ibm 600x. P3 500mhz. When I click the shut down
button it starts to shut down by hangs at the the Ubuntu screen
with and empty progress bar. I can flick the power switch and
it will shut down then. the install went correctly otherwise.
Ive seen this problem listed in the threads before but could not
find it again. I recall the fix involved adding a line of code
to a script somewhere.
I tried the sudo poweroff as you suggested, but it goes to the same screen.
the laptop is halted, but will not power off. I read a simular post in the
forum so apparently this is not a unique problem.
Im thinking of doing a reinstall and seeing what happens.
Ok for boot options, if you are using Grub look in /boot/grub/menu.lst. There you will see your choices for booting, and your boot options should be on the line for kernel.
For lilo, see /etc/lilo.conf.
Also for your bios, I doubt there are updates for it around (too old).
You may have to specify acpi=off if your bios' implementation of acpi is flakey.
Not sure how to specify apm instead of acpi, might be automatic if acpi is turned off.
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