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lemures

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 2

laptop do not poweroff

Hello! I've got an Acer Aspire 1200, with a CPU Intel Celeron, 368MB of ram and 20gb of HD, everything works well but I can't shutdown the notebook, if I press shutdown from the LXDE menu the notebook just halts, but doesn't power off, is it a problem of acpi? how can I fix it?

gaunt

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Registered: 2009-12-13

Posts: 62

Re: laptop do not poweroff

If you have 'exec startlxde' in your .xinitr, try changing it to 'exec ck-launch-session startlxde' . Shutting down with HAL doesn't really work well if you don't use ck-launch-session, though the documentation doesn't really explain why.

lemures

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Registered: 2010-03-05

Posts: 2

Re: laptop do not poweroff

I'll try, but the power manager doesn't work well, I can't see the battery status...

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

Posts: 858

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Re: laptop do not poweroff

To test if it's ACPI/kernel related, just run "poweroff" as root from a VT.  If that hangs, it is.  If it doesn't, then your problem is probably HAL/ConsoleKit/etc. related, and my first suggestion would be the same as guant's.