Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Friday 12 March 2010, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 11/03/10 14:53, Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2010 11:34:33 am Steve Morris wrote:
> >> On 11/03/10 03:22, Juergen Sauer wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 schrieb Mark Greenwood:
> >>>>> Looks like an pure Windows7 Problem. Ask them.
> >>>> 
> >>>> No it's not a Windows problem, I have the same. If I choose
> >>>> 'Reboot' on my laptop from within Kubuntu, then when the
> >>>> laptop comes back up I have no ACPI functionality and no
> >>>> sound. I have to Shutdown and then switch on again to do a
> >>>> proper reboot from within (K)Ubuntu. This does not happen
> >>>> with Mandriva. However on my desktop system a reboot from
> >>>> Kubuntu works fine. I suspect it is an ACPI bug and I
> >>>> reported it to Ubuntu about, oh, two millennia ago.
> >>> 
> >>> Ofcours is it a Problem of the booting operation system if it
> >>> can not correctla initialize the system's hardware.
> >>> 
> >>> If a system is to be booted, a OS must be able to boot
> >>> correctly.
> >>> 
> >>> In this definition it is a clearly Windoze 7 problem.
> >>> 
> >>> Jojo
> >> 
> >> No, it is not a Windows 7 problem, it is Kubuntu/Ubuntu not
> >> doing things properly with the hardware when it shuts down.
> > 
> > it is not shutting down that is the problem.  Either the sound
> > card is flaky in which case from time to time both Mandriva and
> > Ubuntu would also fail to produce sound upon start-up OR the
> > problem is with the OS not correctly initializing the sound
> > card upon boot up.  Any values left in componet parts are
> > supposed to be reset to the values the OS requires when it
> > boots the system up.  Mandriva seems to handle this fine as
> > does Ubuntu on your computer, the other one clearly seems
> > unable to handle this usually simple task.  Does it also
> > re-display your previous OS's  last monitor screens?
> 
> I don't get re-displays of previous OS's last monitor screens.

That's the point: Win7 properly initialises the graphics card, 
causing it to not display the previous OS' last screen. It somehow 
isn't doing the same thing to the sound card, causing it to be in a 
state it can't handle.

> This issue is definitely a Kubuntu shutdown issue and not a Win 7
> initialise issue.

Yes it is. Saying that it isn't isn't going to change this fact... 
;-)

  --Reinhold