shutdown problems on asus laptop

[d34th]

Hi

I've installed ubuntu 8.10 in an asus x50gl (f5gl motherboard), and it fails to power of the system.

The lower half of the screen displays weird stuff (~artifacts) and the system remains blocked,
Hard drives seem to be stopped, but the system is still on (screen, fans...)

I also have problems with the battery charge levels, and special keys (screen brightness, volume wifi...) I think they could be related (acpi?)

If anyone need more info, just ask

Greetings from Spain

[dixon]

Hi,
did you manage to solve this problem? My friend bought the same laptop as you have and he has the exact same problems...

[sahmed001]

If it has intel audio try turning that off and then shut down

modprobe -r snd-hda-intel or whatever the audio module is. You can check using the lsmod command.

If that works then add the line in the halt script.

[sahmed001]

If it has intel audio try turning that off and then shut down

modprobe -r snd-hda-intel or whatever the audio module is. You can check using the lsmod command.

If that works then add the line in the halt script.

[galv]

Hi

I've installed ubuntu 8.10 in an asus x50gl (f5gl motherboard), and it fails to power of the system.

The lower half of the screen displays weird stuff (~artifacts) and the system remains blocked,
Hard drives seem to be stopped, but the system is still on (screen, fans...)

I also have problems with the battery charge levels, and special keys (screen brightness, volume wifi...) I think they could be related (acpi?)

If anyone need more info, just ask

Greetings from Spain

Same laptop, same issues

Greetings from Portugal

[jorl17]

Greetings from Portugal here too.

I have the same exact issues, right now I'm compiling my kernel with support for Asus ACPI and, in case it doesn't work, I'm compiling it without ACPI enabled.

I do not have any sound issues, only these (i think ACPI-related) issues.

If anyone has any advice please tell me.

P.S: The 'artifacts' are always the same and seem to be the repetition of a scaled down area of the gfx card RAM (the one that contains the end of the progress bar)

[crislosi]

I have the same problem with this laptop, I know the error is in the kernel 2.6.27. This error are in Suse 11.1, Debian Sid, etc. I've installed the kernel 2.6.28 and the error remains again.
I think the error is in the kernel there is an error when reads some memories direction, but i don't hnow how resolving this problem.
The problem is not with sound card nor acpi, I've tried editing all different options in the grub but nothing worked fine.
I've notified this error in launchpad web page but nothing de nothing
Thanks

[galv]

I have the same problem with this laptop, I know the error is in the kernel 2.6.27. This error are in Suse 11.1, Debian Sid, etc. I've installed the kernel 2.6.28 and the error remains again.

I think that maybe this issue may only be solved with kernel 2.6.29
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11884

[jorl17]

I don't know which of these problems are you talking about.

I compiled the kernel with extra asus acpi stuff, yet it didn't work. (also I would need restricted modules recompiled for my wireless card and I'm not up for that soon).

About the 'artifacts' problem:

Recently I messed with my NVIDIA drivers and had a huge mess. During this mess I lost X, I lost GDM, I lost all drivers, then I got them back, but what matters is that some of the times this bug was not visible.

It could either be related to:

a) NVIDIA driver not loaded (I'd scratch that, since I disable modules once and it still happened)

b) X11 not loading (because NVIDIA driver did not respond)

c) Display-resolution changes (seems likely, let me explain: I think that ubuntu boots up in a resolution that is different from the one we use, I'm with 1280x800. As I said, I once booted with NVIDIA drivers disabled and this happened, but when I booted up in another resolution it didn't happen)

So, I still don't know what made that go away, since I went through allot to get my NVIDIA drivers back.

[raster]

I've been doing some tests.

At LinTop (http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+f5gl) I found that an user reported that Knoppix was able to power off the laptop. I tested it and is true. It has kernel 2.6.24-4.

I tried older versions of Ubuntu to check if some of them have the same kernel version and works, but 7.10 fails to boot, hiding the boot splash and showing an InitRam terminal. Version 8.04 fails to boot too, but in a different way: it loads the kernel and remains in that point for a long time; it never starts to launch the INIT scripts.

While booting, I saw that Knoppix loads an ACPI module called ASUS-ACPI. Maybe...