Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-17 Thread Colin Law
On 16 November 2011 21:03, Barry Titterton wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:06 +, Colin Law wrote: >> On 15 November 2011 22:09, Steve Fisher wrote: >> > Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines.  Usually a >> > problem with the video drivers (but not always).  What video

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Barry Titterton
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:06 +, Colin Law wrote: > On 15 November 2011 22:09, Steve Fisher wrote: > > Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines. Usually a > > problem with the video drivers (but not always). What video card do you > > have? My machine will not come out of s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Tony Pursell
On 16 November 2011 15:22, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > On Wed, November 16, 2011 10:10, Barry Drake wrote: > > > > Curiously, I experienced the same problem exactly, just twice, on a > > Samsung N150 Netbook with 11.10. The only way out was to unplug the > > battery for ten seconds. Nothing else got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 November 2011 16:31, Andy Braben wrote: > > On 16 November 2011 15:22, Jon Reynolds > wrote: >> >> On Wed, November 16, 2011 10:10, Barry Drake wrote: >> > >> > Curiously, I experienced the same problem exactly, just twice, on a >> > Samsung N150 Netbook with 11.10.  The only way out was to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Andy Braben
On 16 November 2011 15:22, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, November 16, 2011 10:10, Barry Drake wrote: > > > > Curiously, I experienced the same problem exactly, just twice, on a > > Samsung N150 Netbook with 11.10. The only way out was to unplug the > > battery for ten seconds. Nothing else got a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 November 2011 15:22, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, November 16, 2011 10:10, Barry Drake wrote: >> >> Curiously, I experienced the same problem exactly, just twice, on a >> Samsung N150 Netbook with 11.10.  The only way out was to unplug the >> battery for ten seconds.  Nothing else got any r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Wed, November 16, 2011 10:10, Barry Drake wrote: > > Curiously, I experienced the same problem exactly, just twice, on a > Samsung N150 Netbook with 11.10. The only way out was to unplug the > battery for ten seconds. Nothing else got any response. > > Regards,Barry. > > -- > Barry Dra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Barry Drake
On 16/11/11 09:06, Colin Law wrote: I think you have misunderstood the problem, it does not go into standby, nor am I asking it to. I ask for a normal shutdown, which it does. After shutting down the shutdown light flashes *as if* it were in standby, but it is not. The problem is that something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On 15 November 2011 22:09, Steve Fisher wrote: > Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines.  Usually a > problem with the video drivers (but not always).  What video card do you > have?  My machine will not come out of standby 90% of the time running FGLRX > radeon drivers, but d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Fisher
Coming out of standby is a major issue on a lot of machines. Usually a problem with the video drivers (but not always). What video card do you have? My machine will not come out of standby 90% of the time running FGLRX radeon drivers, but does on the open source drivers, works as good as gold on

[ubuntu-uk] Problem when powering off - suspend light flashing

2011-11-15 Thread Colin Law
I have a problem that I am pretty sure is nothing to do with Ubuntu but I hope somebody here may be able to help. On one of my desktop PCs (running Ubuntu 11.10), about 50% of the time when I shutdown it does a normal power down but then the standby light flashes as if it were in standby. It is n