My roommate says your issue is most likely ACPI and alternate OS's such as windows are likely to have same issues.
He said it's a common problem with aging toshibas and he hasn't found a workable solution. He suggest testing with other OS's such as windows or a live cd distro to verify chip issues and eliminate software as a culprit Hope it's helpful; TeddyB -----Original Message----- From: Howard Eisenberger <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:31:25 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Older Toshiba won't restart only halt On 2010-11-09, Stephen Fishpaste wrote: > I've had this issue for some time with this laptop through the various > incarnations of Debian. This is a Toshiba Satellite 1800 circa 2004 > with maxed out ram 512 Mb and it runs just fine with LXDE on it. > Presently I'm running Squeeze, with proposed Sid updates. > > I've never been able to 'restart' the damn thing. halt -p works fine > but I always have to shutdown and then manually start up again. A pain > in the arse for kernel upgrades. 8>D > > Any suggestions as to what I need to do to fix this? Don't have this > problem with other laptops of the same era that I've installed Debian > on either. Same thing here with a cheapo Intel P4 motherboard running Squeeze. No desktop manager. I haven't investigated, as the machine is rarely used, but it looks like the issue is not restricted to laptops. Regards, Howard E. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
