Shut down (on a laptop)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 17:01 +0100, Jenny Blower wrote:

> i've been using warty on a laptop, and when i'm shutting the machine
> down i'm now just getting a blank screen, instead of the 'blurb' i
> used to get.. this is great, except for one small thing.. the mahcine
> itself doesn't actually turn off automatically, so i'm having to guess
> as to when it's finished!

This is probably actually a bug - the machine should shut itself down
automatically. Discussion on the ACPI mailing list suggests that having
CONFIG_RTC enabled in the kernel breaks shutdown - CONFIG_GEN_RTC should
give the same functionality without any problems. Is there anyone who
can test this?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org