[CoLoCo] Dell d600 won't shut down

[Jeffrey LePage]

Jerry,

We have about 20 D600's at our school.  They're dual-boot, running WinXP Pro and Xubuntu 9.04.  Most often they boot up into Xubuntu.  We're planning on upgrading to 10.04 very soon.  We have never had problems with systems hanging on shutdown, and our install is pretty standard.  What version of Ubuntu are you running?

I can suggest a few of these things:
1) Get rid of the splash.  However, it looks like you've tried that already. Maybe get rid of 'quiet' _and_ 'splash'.  
2) If you're running 9.04 and later, are you running update-grub after you change /etc/default/grub ?
3) You might want to create a custom xorg.conf.  See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504084 and the referenced forums within.  At our school we had to fiddle with a custom xorg.conf to get adequate performance.  
4) Have you checked BIOS settings?  Maybe the messed-up systems have screwy settings? 

I'll be upgrading to 10.04 on our D600 systems soon, in the next few weeks.  I'll let you know how it goes.  

Good luck.


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> From: Jerry Windsor <JKWindsor at eaton.k12.co.us>
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> We have about 45 Dell Latitude D600 laptops we are going to
> use in a mobile lab in our high school.  Many of them
> shutdown just fine, but we have a few that hang on splash
> screen on shutdown.
> 
> I have read many of the forms.  I have tried setting
> the grub settings to "quiet splash acpi=force" and "quiet
> acpi=force", and nether seem to make a difference.
> 
> We are fairly new to Ubuntu.  We are happy enough that
> we are in the process of making almost all of our computers
> dual boot, windows xp and Ubuntu.
> 
> These laptops only have an Ubuntu build, so it is important
> that I can get them to shutdown.
> 
> I would appreciate any input or direction that anyone
> wanted to offer.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Jerry Windsor
> Eaton Schools RE-2
> 907-381-5132
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