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?

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 adapter

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mihai Popescu 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 X to con

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 look

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread patrick keshishian
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Rod Whitworth 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 console or shu

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: http://marc.info/?l=

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 fr

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 X