On 2012-01-03, Don Juan <[email protected]> wrote: > > you could always do alt+sysrq REISUB that's a gentler way to shut down
No, I couldn't, because the system is halted and there's no magic left. This machine, an Acer X1430 running debian squeeze with a 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, always shuts down properly but periodically fails to power off. > If its a nvidia or ati card you could have the dreaded issues of > xorg-server not playing nicely. I just recently had to pin xorg-server > in sid to be able to cleanly shutdown and reboot again. There are a > bunch of bugs open in regards to nvidia and ati and most are in relation > to xorg-server. > I have an ATI card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
