On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:38:40 +0000 (UTC), Paul Bredbury <i@hate-spam.com> wrote:
>Eric Edwards wrote:
>> Shutdown works fine, powering off the machine like I would expect.
>> Gnome, however, doesn't quite get there. The OS shuts down and the
>> video goes off, but the power light is still on and the power supply
>> fan is still turning. It is rather like a low power suspend state
>> common with laptops except without the benefit of a still-running OS.
>
>I'd upgrade udev and the kernel. I've had this myself in older kernel
>versions.

Could the problem have re-surfaced? I'm running 2.6.12-r10

>> A possibly related issue:
>> The screen blanker doesn't turn off the monitor, ever, despite the
>> Display Power Management settings. I just get a glowing black screen.
>
>In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, you should have a line:
>
>Section "Monitor"
> Option "DPMS"
>EndSection

Thanks. That worked.

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