On Wednesday 07 November 2007 19:54, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, > >> > >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the > >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. > >> However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via > >> alsaconf) and indeed I have a vague remember reading something in the > >> past like acpi has / have some problems with alsa which might block a > >> complete shutdown like in my case. > > > > In order to pinpoint the problem you could remove the alsa modules > > first. > > > > Regards, > > Andrei > > Strange. I had exactly the same problem and I found out it was the intel > sound modules... So I wrote a simple /etc/init.d/ script which unloaded > them just before the shutdown. > > > The strange thing is that after a pretty recent kernel upgrade, I found > that that was fixed, so I deleted my custom script. Are you using an > old kernel? (I am now using the 2.6.22-2-686). > > Giorgos
I'm using 2.6.18-5-686 Do you reckon I should upgrade ? Bye, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]