Shut down (on a laptop)

[Thom May]

* Matt Zimmerman (mdz at canonical.com) wrote :
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Jenny Blower wrote:
> 
> > excuse the non-geek speak.. but..
> > 
> > i've been using warty on a laptop, and when i'm shutting the machine down
> > i'm now just getting a blank screen, instead of the 'blurb' i used to
> > get.. this is great, except for one small thing.. the mahcine itself
> > doesn't actually turn off automatically, so i'm having to guess as to when
> > it's finished!
> 
> I'm still getting this on my ThinkPad T42 with the 2.6.8.1 kernel (I was
> hoping it might be fixed).  I wonder if a newer ACPI patch would help.
> 
> Thom, do you have this issue on your X40, and did it help when you were
> running an update ACPI patch?
> 
Nup. I select shutdown from the logout menu, and it shuts down like a good
little laptop.
Running the stock 2.6.8.1 .
-Thom