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   From: ßødincµs²°°°    
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   Subject: Re: Shutdown requires manual power off   
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   Recently, Richard Asbridge popped out over the fence   
   around alt.os.linux.ubuntu and said...   
   |Greetings all,   
   |   
   |I'm running Kubuntu 6.10 (64 bit edition) on the following box:   
   |   
   |Intel D975XBX motherboard   
   |Intel core 2 duo 2.4Ghz CPU   
   |4GB RAM   
   |nVidia 7900 GTX graphics card   
   |Sound blaster Audigy SE   
   |   
   |Description of problem:   
   |   
   |When I shutdown the machine via "KDE right-click menu" or "init 0" or   
   |"shutdown" CLI commands the system comes to a halt safely but fails to cut   
   |the power to the screen, lights on the front of the box etc. The last   
   |message posted to the screen is "System will halt..."   
   Snip...   
   |   
   |Thanks for you time   
   |   
   |Richard   
   |   
   Open a terminal and issue the "dmesg" command. Look at the very first    
   lines how the APM / ACPI boots up. Get clues from there.   
   If this doesn't ring a bell, try adding "acpi = force lapic" in the GRUB    
   boot command line.   
   That solved the problem on my machine.   
   Cheers   
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