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I recently updated my kernel in mepis 6.0 passing from 2.6.15-26-386 to 2.6.15-27-686. While this solved my sound issues, I have now problems in shutting down my laptop. The problem is that after having written "power off" the system freezes and I have to complete the shutdown with the poweroff button of my laptop.
I already tried to shutdown from terminal with "poweroff -h now" but the result is the same. Somewhere I get the advice of removing splashy but again the system freezes at shutdown.
It is possible that the operating system is shutting down properly but not giving the proper signal to the power supply. This could happen if you are not using acpi.
i, on the other hand, get the occassional FREEZE, just whenever.
seems like MEPIS 6.0 doesnt like either my laptop, or the mouse, since that is when all the freezing occured... but to stay on topic, i have an IBM R52, and here is my grep : (it shutsdown just fine)
Hu! That's a problem!
In effects I set "acpi=off" as boot option. Without that option I got a "kernel panic" when opening mepis, so I cannot work with acpi on.
It's not really a problem. You just have to use the power switch to manually turn the power off. The main thing is that the operating system shuts down normally to protect your data.
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