Re: Problem with halt

[Wawrzek Niewodniczanski <main@wawrzek.name>]

On 29 October 2013 08:00, <davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:

Recently I moved my home desktop from (x)Ubuntu to Debian Wheezy. The
experience is positive, with one exception: shutdown doesn't stop power for
my computer.

[...]

  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html#_how_to_shutdown_the_system

from that page:

If the software power control is available, the shutdown procedure
automatically turns off power of the system. (Otherwise, you may
have to press power button for few seconds after the shutdown
procedure.)

so does holding down the power button after shutdown turn off power?

Yes that exactly what I have.

 
[...]

i would guess that the difference might be due to ubuntu's kernel
including non-free firmware blobs that debian's kernels do not,

[...]
 

This make sense, however I could not find anything yet.

Thanks,
Wawrzek

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