On 11/10/08, Dan Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all. I was the newbie to the meeting last Wednesday. Thanx for > welcoming me and for all the info. I appreciate it. > > I have a couple of quick questions on 2 of my laptops. > > #1. Hp Pavilion 533 MHz running kubuntu. All runs great except for > shutdown. It shuts down but the logo stay's on the screen and I still need > to press and hold the on/off button to get it to power off. What might be > missing from the script and how do I change it. >
This happens on some hardware for me. There is no harm to the system by just holding down the power button to shut it off. If it is really bugging you, there are a few things you can try. Last post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776036&page=3 "I had the same problem with Kubuntu 8.10, In the System Settings, Go to advanced->login manager, in that go to the ShutDown tab. For Halt, give the command :/sbin/shutdown -P This will enable shutdown." This may also be an issue with APM (the issue being it may not be enabled since your hardware is so much older than the OS, and I think new hardware uses ACPI.) > #2 question I was told that gustin might be able to answer…. I hacked my > eeepc and installed a sd card in the bottom. Its plugged into a usb port > that is soldered into the bottom of the motherboard. All is great with the > computer finding and mounting it but the only things that I can do with it > is read from it. The info that was on it is readable but I cant write to it. > Im thinking that there is something there with the read write portion. Any > thoughts and suggestion on how to fix?? > Is it the kind of card that could have a hardware write lock (the little slider) on it? If so, the lock may have been accidentally enabled. Alternately, you may have caused it to be read-only if you made an /etc/fstab entry for it that has "ro" in the mount options. A third possibility is that card is not supported properly by the SD card reader. > Thanx and also thanx for the magazine that I won at the meeting. > > > Dan Mueller > -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
