Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Saturday 13 March 2010, Steve Morris wrote:
<snipping /etc/init.d/killprocs>

> I looked at the /etc/rc6.d/S20sendsigs which are the scripts that
> get processed at shutdown.

You're right, killprocs is for runlevel 1. Should've paid closer 
attention to that.

> This script is very similar to what
> you have listed above, but as far as I can see it is issuing
> invalid killall5 commands that are invalid.

Hmm, looking through sendsigs, I can't confirm that the commands are 
invalid. Why would you think so?

> I use a Soundblaster Audigy LE sound card for which there is no
> driver in Win 7, and the Win 7 driver from the vendor that
> supposedly supports all versions of the Audigy card up to the
> current Soundblaster Audigy 4 does not work with the card either
> (it says there is no supported hardware when you try to install
> it), so I am using the Win XP drivers supplied with the card
> which work fine.

You know, if you had actually said that from the beginning, there 
might have been a lot more decent responses.

That said, you're using an unsupported driver for a not natively 
supported sound card and are blaming *Ubuntu* that it isn't working? 
And you don't see anything wrong with that?

The fact that it's working properly after Mandriva is likely pure 
coincidence, as is the fact that the sound card is working with the 
XP drivers.
You do know that MS apparently completely overhauled the driver 
framework and that few or no XP drivers work properly with Vista or 
Win7?

> As I understand it the driver will ask the
> hardware what it is and what features it supports. So if apps are
> being shutdown properly then it seems to me that the Ubuntu
> driver is configuring the hardware as a device that the windows
> driver doesn't support.

Right, because Ubuntu reassembles the hardware specifically to make 
it incompatible with Win7...

Funnily, we're right back where we started: your win driver isn't 
properly initialising the hardware.

  --Reinhold