I just restarted my laptop to check - shutting down is about 20 seconds - very quick.
Boot from grub to login screen - at 2min 30 secs, the boot continues from the "hang" and in 3 minutes total the laptop is sat at the GDM login. Also - do you find that you can adjust the screen brightness with smartdimmer or Fn+F5/F6 , but the "power management" settings dont do squat? -- Sony VAIO VGN-S3HP hangs on boot (acpi) https://launchpad.net/bugs/68193 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs