PC fans runs after dapper is halted.

[Tommy Trussell]

On 5/13/06, Joel Bryan T. Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> I got an old jurassic loud PC exhaust fan, so I have no problem
> distinguishing it between the other components.
>
> And shutting down linux doesn't turn off my computer is really a
> problem, considering I'm also deploying dapper for more than 1000
> computers in our university, and I made some scripts there that shutdown
> those PC remotely through LAN at 10:00 PM for 300 Hoary computers, I
> tested beta 2 dapper and they too doesn't shutdown automatically in
> those PC's.
>
> I think it's logical to add acpi=force in the kernel parameters since,
> dapper load acpi at boot time. What's the use of loading it if acpi
> doesn't work.
>
> I got a jurassic PC (with 1mb video card) but it has acpi support and
> fully functional in Hoary and Breezy.

This bug apparently only affects some models. I know of an old Gateway
PC that didn't shut down right under warty but worked great with hoary
and breezy. I will NOT be upgrading that one to Dapper anytime soon,
so I have not tested it. I guess I ought to burn the latest flight
liveCD to test it so I can see.

We need to file the bugs on these machines so those of us who love
running Ubuntu on our old PCs can keep it up!

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