[CoLoCo] Dell d600 won't shut down

[Jim Hutchinson]

I can't offer any specific fix for the laptops, only previous experience.
I've used various releases of Ubuntu on D505, D610, D620, and I think a
D810. All of them have worked without any real hitch. Some needed wifi
drivers but that's about it. None ever had a shutdown issue. Sleep, yes, but
never shutdown. I always shut them down for the "power" menu usually up in
the top right corner. Some would pop up a shutdown/sleep menu if the power
button was pushed and would shutdown if that option was selected.

While I never experienced these types of issues on the Dell laptops, I did
have some issues on a desktop that I built and a much older Dell (circa
2000) desktop. With those it turned out to be ACPI related and there were
some options that could be issued at boot or in the boot command that
helped. I don't remember exactly how I did it, but if you can find some info
on ACPI and Ubuntu it might help. Just a thought at least.

Jim

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Jeffrey LePage <jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> We have about 20 D600's at our school.  They're dual-boot, running WinXP
> Pro and Xubuntu 9.04.  Most often they boot up into Xubuntu.  We're planning
> on upgrading to 10.04 very soon.  We have never had problems with systems
> hanging on shutdown, and our install is pretty standard.  What version of
> Ubuntu are you running?
>
> I can suggest a few of these things:
> 1) Get rid of the splash.  However, it looks like you've tried that
> already. Maybe get rid of 'quiet' _and_ 'splash'.
> 2) If you're running 9.04 and later, are you running update-grub after you
> change /etc/default/grub ?
> 3) You might want to create a custom xorg.conf.  See
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=504084 and the referenced forums
> within.  At our school we had to fiddle with a custom xorg.conf to get
> adequate performance.
> 4) Have you checked BIOS settings?  Maybe the messed-up systems have screwy
> settings?
>
> I'll be upgrading to 10.04 on our D600 systems soon, in the next few weeks.
>  I'll let you know how it goes.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:55:02 -0600
> > From: Jerry Windsor <JKWindsor at eaton.k12.co.us>
> > Subject: [CoLoCo]
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> > We have about 45 Dell Latitude D600 laptops we are going to
> > use in a mobile lab in our high school.  Many of them
> > shutdown just fine, but we have a few that hang on splash
> > screen on shutdown.
> >
> > I have read many of the forms.  I have tried setting
> > the grub settings to "quiet splash acpi=force" and "quiet
> > acpi=force", and nether seem to make a difference.
> >
> > We are fairly new to Ubuntu.  We are happy enough that
> > we are in the process of making almost all of our computers
> > dual boot, windows xp and Ubuntu.
> >
> > These laptops only have an Ubuntu build, so it is important
> > that I can get them to shutdown.
> >
> > I would appreciate any input or direction that anyone
> > wanted to offer.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Jerry Windsor
> > Eaton Schools RE-2
> > 907-381-5132
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