[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-26 Thread Lucy O'Neill
At last tried it myself and - with NVidia proprietary driver back installed - problem is present. The solution i've got seems not working for me neither. So i suppose it does work in some cases - but is not (and shouldn't be treated as) solving the issue for everyone. For now i don't have NVidia

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-24 Thread Lucy O'Neill
Lads - this is NOT my solution, just found it browsing other potential sources. It comes from polish Ubuntu forum. Topic was closed so i presumed they've sorted it out. I'm so glad it works, soon will try on my own XPS M1530. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubun

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-24 Thread Lucy O'Neill
Hi again, just by accident found on some foreign ubuntu forum solution that might be checked out; i have to leave right now so cannot play with it - but if someone wants, feel free to try. They say it's acpi issue and it has to be switched on in GRUB GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=on" sudo update-grub

[Bug 987220] Re: System does not power off reliably when "Shut Down" chosen from GUI

2012-07-20 Thread Lucy O'Neill
In my case - uninstalling all proprietary NVidia drivers solved the problem (Dell XPS M1530) but have to put up with rather crappy graphic; SMPlayer doesn't work and launcher & icons pretty big (it can be fixed though) - but at least system shuts down no problem and it was the aim. We just have