Laptop not powering off

[Raoul Snyman]

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Bill Christiansen wrote:
| I had a similar thing happen on my laptop way back when I first
| installed Ubuntu. Due to the age of my bios (being an older laptop) acpi
| didn't automatically load so I had the choice of using apm by adding the
| word apm to the /etc/modules file or forcing acpi to load by adding the
| acpi=force kernel parameter to the grub menu.lst file. Whether this
| works depends on your specific hardware and bios version. One indication
| whether power management is working is to add the battery charge monitor
| to the Gnome panel and see if it is working properly.
| Bill
|

I'll have a look at that, thanks. I have the battery charge monitor
loaded, and it doesn't work. It isn't too much of an issue for me, since
~ my laptop is usually connected to mains, and if not, it's usually not
on for long enough to die on me. but it is an oldish laptop, so i'll
look into that apm/acpi.

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