On 2012-01-03, Don Juan <donjuans...@gmail.com> wrote: > > you could always do alt+sysrq REISUB that's a gentler way to shut down
No, I couldn't, because the system is halted and there's no magic left. This machine, an Acer X1430 running debian squeeze with a 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel, always shuts down properly but periodically fails to power off. > If its a nvidia or ati card you could have the dreaded issues of > xorg-server not playing nicely. I just recently had to pin xorg-server > in sid to be able to cleanly shutdown and reboot again. There are a > bunch of bugs open in regards to nvidia and ati and most are in relation > to xorg-server. > I have an ATI card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnjg67vg.41k.cu...@einstein.electron.org
