New kernel did not fix it. Intrepid Alpha5 freezes laptop completely after the message "Rebooting the system" is displayed. Keyboard is dead as well as CD-ROM eject button, and the only thing that can be done is to power machine off by holding Power button.
** Summary changed: - [Hardy] Asus F5N laptop freezes on restart but will shut down + [Intrepid] [Hardy] Asus F5N laptop freezes on restart but will shut down ** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.24-11-generic + Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.27-*-generic Asus F5N laptop freezes on restart after displaying the message "Will now restart." It will not respond to any key and has to be powered off by depressing the power button. Shutting down X and unloading nVidia and snd-hda-intel drivers does not help. Will not reboot from single user mode with the same symptoms. Passing "reboot=b" parameter to the kernel does not help either. This affects Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop CD (fails to reboot after initial install) and the current 2.6.22-14-generic SMP kernel. In addition to this information, dmidecode command output is attached. - Hardy 8.04 Alpha 6 has the same issue as well. + Hardy 8.04 and Intrepid Alpha5 still have this problem. -- [Intrepid] [Hardy] Asus F5N laptop freezes on restart but will shut down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs