Laptop not powering off

[Raoul Snyman]

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Bill Christiansen wrote:
| I had a similar thing happen on my laptop way back when I first
| installed Ubuntu. Due to the age of my bios (being an older laptop) acpi
| didn't automatically load so I had the choice of using apm by adding the
| word apm to the /etc/modules file or forcing acpi to load by adding the
| acpi=force kernel parameter to the grub menu.lst file. Whether this
| works depends on your specific hardware and bios version. One indication
| whether power management is working is to add the battery charge monitor
| to the Gnome panel and see if it is working properly.
| Bill

thanks bill! that works like a charm! - i used the acpi=force option in
the kernel parameters.

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Raoul Snyman
Saturn Laboratories
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