Hi,

Sometimes when I shutdown FC5 my laptop just freezes with a black screen and I have to just power off manually.

I usually shutdown from KDE, so it's either KDE or the XServer that is causing this to happen.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any fixes available? At first I thought this was the Redhat Graphical Boot causing the issue but even after disabling that it still happens.

My set up also includes an ATI 9700 card with full OpenGL driver support if that makes a difference.

FC5 takes a while to shut down on my laptop (and blanks the screen most of the time while it's doing it), how long have you waited for it to turn off?

Hours, literally

Ok, then it definitely is freezing on shutdown. Actually, it's possible that the ACPI just isn't enabled or working, since ACPI allows the OS to actually cut off the power, so without ACPI the kernel just halts with the message "Power off" (but you wouldn't be able to see that, since the screen gets blanked or something in FC5). To see if the problem really *is* KDE or X11, boot to runlevel 3 (edit your grub command line and add 3 to the end, IIRC that should do it), log in, then shut down (/sbin/poweroff) and see what happens.

Hi, I have exactly the same problem on my notebook with fc5. Acpi is working for me (the only thing that is not is hibernating/suspend). Try to use /sbin/poweroff or /sbin/shutdown instead. But if anyone knows sollution of this problem, please post it, me (and many other people) would be grateful.