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ACPI Shutdown

Asked by rionline

hi there,

i come from germany, but i try in english to get more readers for my problem. I've bought a new notebook (MD96350) and evertime i shutdown my ubuntu os the next boot up get's buggy. After switching off in Linux my notebook turns one second after powering on off again. 5 seconds later it powering on by itself. I think after a while my harddisk will get broken, because of the powering on and instantly powering off again.
When i shutdown in Windows (xp, vista, 7), everything works fine next time i press the powerswitch.

I tried Ubuntu 8.04.3, 9.04 and 9.10. Everytime the same issue. Same for fedora 11. It would be my first linux-incompatible notebook...
What i haven't tried yet, is compiling a own kernel with apm kernel-module, because it is a lot of work and i wanna use the kernel-updates, so that i do not have to compile every version again for myself. And...i haven't tried yet, because i am not sure, how to do this in a smart and clean way.
But does windows 7 and vista really turns off the machine with apm commands??

what can i do? anybody knows issues like that?

my workaround: i've edited the /etc/default/halt and switched the "poweroff" to "halt". i have to turn it of myself after the system is haltet, but the next powering up works as it should do.

thanks so far.
i am desperate

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applecache(Nolan King) (nolanking) said : 		#1

Hello

All the way from South Africa i would like to thank you for telling me about Medion as i didnt know about them and what they were in the first place. These days you find only other well known brands etc.

Have you checked to see if your laptop has been hardware tested by ubuntu community members. From what i know i havent seen your laptop anywhere on the list which is probably why you are having this problem which is sad but hey if you can sort it out and then become part of the latop testing team we would greatly appreciate it. Other than that im afraid im also a noob! :D

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : 		#2

I would suggest you to update your BIOS to make sure you run the latest release. Sometimes that helps with ACPI issues. If that doesn't fix your problem you should try to play with a few BIOS options related to ACPI (repost video card after S3, ACPI version, etc.).

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rionline (rionline) said : 		#3

The Bios update is already done. There are no options related to ACPI. No change. I dumped my DSDT-Table and tried to fix some warning and errors, but no change after that either...

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) said : 		#4

Maybe you should try to follow this : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingACPI and if nothing does it you should fill a bug report.

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