Comment 2 for bug 158310
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote | #2 |
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The obvious problem with is that we don't actually know that the machine is not going to halt until the machine fails to halt - by which time, we've already effectively exited the kernel.
We could prepare in advance, by changing the video mode to text, writing a message on screen, then attempting to power off - but that would massively disadvantage the majority of people whose machines _do_ support ACPI.