Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Laurence Rochfort
I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X and shutdown if booted to console however. I understand the

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hey there On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X and shutdown if booted to console however. Check this thread for more info:

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Mihai Popescu
Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically switching from X to console and back. From Lenovo specification, you systems looks

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a naive question: How does one determine whether or not a system is/has Sandybridge? I ask, cause I have a lenovo x120e that has similar issues to what is reported here with Sandybridge; specifically switching from

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Laurence Rochfort
There are no naive questions, but unfortunately a lot of elitist answers. The sandy bridge video adapters are denoted gt1 gt2 and gt2+ and the cpus i5 and i7 Check your pcidump to see if you have a non Intel adapter present, its quite rare to have Intel integrated graphics and a secondary

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:35, patrick keshishian wrote: right. i suppose, what I really meant was, based on the dmesg from OP, how does one determine sandybridge-ness? (my eyeballs didn't catch any obvious references). Or does one need to read the manufacturer's marketing docs to know?