[Bug 42160] Re: Shut Down won't power off with an ASUS P5GD1 motherboard

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Hi,

I had upgraded my Ubuntu box since the Dapper release  . After the Edgy,
I had noticed that my computer no longer shutdown. I upgraded
successively to Feisty, Gutsy and Hardy 8.04. Unfortunately my system
still did not properly shutdown :(. The poweroff process hangs at
"computer will now halt". Alt-Ctrl-Suppr does nothing but respawning a
poweroff script.

I wonder if it is really an hardware problem, since an older version of
Ubuntu can power off my computer. My hardware is not longer supported
(AMD Athlon on a Soltek motherboard SL-75FRN2), so I cannot make any
BIOS update. I also booted on my old rusty 2k4 Knoppix and it does
shutdown.

I fiddled also with kernel boot options (acpi/apm), but I only managed
to get my computer going to hibernation mode. Pretty fun, but what I
want is a complete power off :p

Finally, I started banging on my keyboard like a mad monkey and I
accidentally have discovered the magic SysRq key
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key) kernel features are not
disabled on my stock kernel (Linux Machine 2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu
Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux).

I can now happily and unsafely shutdown my computer but I hope this
problem could be resolved one day.

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Shut Down won't power off with an ASUS P5GD1 motherboard
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