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linux-source-2.6.17 package

  1. Bug #68816
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 68816

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LevTermen (theremin) wrote : Re: [edgy] crash during shutdown/reboot

I have the same laptop: it doesn't freeze on Edgy, it just takes some times to complete some tasks at shutdown.

On my grub boot options (/boot/grub/menu.lst), I did remove the "quiet" tags and added "vga=791", so that I can monitor the tasks completion, have a more proper framebuffer resolution (1024x768 as 1280x800 isn't available), and still benefit from the eye-candy splash screen.

You can ensure these options will be applied to any new kernel to be installed by modifiyng the following line, again on the same file:
# defoptions=splash vga=791
Do not remove the square character, but run afterwards the following command for it to be taken into account:
sudo update-grub

So to me this bug will be really closed when the grub configuration can be automatically modified by hardware sensing (for the "vga=791" option). It is a recurrent issue that still has to be addressed for other considerations too, such as hardware recognition at system installation.