[ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

[Barry Titterton]

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:06 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> On 15 November 2011 22:09, Steve Fisher <xirconuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines.  Usually a
> > problem with the video drivers (but not always).  What video card do you
> > have?  My machine will not come out of standby 90% of the time running FGLRX
> > radeon drivers, but does on the open source drivers, works as good as gold
> > on the open source version.
> 
> I think you have misunderstood the problem, it does not go into
> standby, nor am I asking it to.  I ask for a normal shutdown, which it
> does.  After shutting down the shutdown light flashes *as if* it were
> in standby, but it is not.  The problem is that something (possibly a
> hardware fault) is causing it to think it is in standby when it is
> not.
> 
> Colin
> 
I had something similar with a desktop after I messed with the ACPI
options. Has your installation/upgrade to 11.10 introduced some ACPI
settings without your knowledge?

Barry T