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esh

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Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 28

Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

Hello,
An installation on a new board does not power off on shutdown. The words "Power down" appear, and the hard drives appear to spin down, but this is as far as it gets. The graphics remains. Further to this, things like acpi-cpufreq do not work, which is leading me to believe there is an ACPI issue. Is this a kernel or mainboard BIOS problem, and is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks for your time.

eren

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From: Black Mesa

Registered: 2008-03-06

Posts: 53

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Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

hi
i got the same problem too. i updated my laptop's bios and i get the same problem. says power down and nothing happens. when i press a key from keyboard then shutsdown.

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kaaposc

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 30

Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

says power down and nothing happens. when i press a key from keyboard then shutsdown.

Acer Aspire 5520 laptop behaves similarly - I have to press "magic" Ctrl (maybe others work, too) key at the end to make it suspend or shutdown. Looks like ACPI is waiting for some event just before turning power down... Can anybody tell what happens when linux shuts down?

JJwalker

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Registered: 2008-07-05

Posts: 17

Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

Same here with BenQ s73

eren

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From: Black Mesa

Registered: 2008-03-06

Posts: 53

Website

Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

says power down and nothing happens. when i press a key from keyboard then shutsdown.

Acer Aspire 5520 laptop behaves similarly - I have to press "magic" Ctrl (maybe others work, too) key at the end to make it suspend or shutdown. Looks like ACPI is waiting for some event just before turning power down... Can anybody tell what happens when linux shuts down?

bro you can't believe but i got the same laptop as well. acer aspire 5520g
i haven't find any solution for this but searching.

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kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

what do y'alls' logs show?  anything interesting?

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[23:00:16]    dr_kludge | i want to invent an olfactory human-computer interface, integrate it into the web standards, then produce my own forked browser.
[23:00:32]    dr_kludge | can you guess what i'd call it?
[23:01:16]    dr_kludge | nosilla.
[23:01:32]    dr_kludge | i really should be going to bed.  i'm giggling madly about that.

esh

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Registered: 2008-11-05

Posts: 28

Re: Shutdown does not power off / ACPI issues

It appears the logic gate which grounds pin 14 on the ATX connector got stuck. This is why it would not work properly.