Re: Problem with halt

[Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 14 November 2013 06:40 PM, Curt wrote:
> On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which
> > points to script that could run
> > shutdown -hP
>
> Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to
> resorting to such an expedient I have experimented with the -P flag in
> an xterm and unfortunately the results are far from encouraging
> (meaning: it didn't produce the desired effect).
Hi Curt,

so you used:
shutdown -hP now

and that did not produce the result. From debian wikis it appears to be 
an APM issue.

aptitude search "~i firmware"
should show if you've got the free & nonfree firmware installed.
I generally prefer to install the metapackage firmware-linux which 
installs both.

Sincerely,
Kailash