I did not have to use the acpi=force option. With my setup it seemed turning off the cool and quiet option in the bios alleviated the shutdown reboot issue,however. I'm on a desktop machine so this is not an issue. Users who need cpu scaling may not want to turn of these types of options.
On 11/26/06, Paulo Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have apparently hidden this bug (temporarily) using the workaround > suggested in http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=42873 and mentioned > by piero: > Added "acpi=force" to the first kernel line in boot/grub/menu.lst so that it > reads: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet > splash acpi=force > > After rebooting, my Toshiba Tecra 8100 (PIII, 600MHz, 320MB RAM) powers > off correctly. > > -- > Power down after shutdown does not work... > https://launchpad.net/bugs/43961 > -- Power down after shutdown does not work... https://launchpad.net/bugs/43961 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
