[arch-general] Weird behaviour A/C vs battery

[Manolo Martínez]

Thanks a lot for your reply. In this laptop (a Toshiba Satellite U500, 
btw) I've had several versions of Ubuntu and Fedora installed, and 
Windows 7 -- although it's currently Arch-only. I've only had this 
behaviour in Arch.

Manolo

On 08/09/2011 06:30 PM, Madhurya Kakati wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Manolo Martínez
> <manolo at austrohungaro.com>  wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I would like to ask you for help with a weird piece of behaviour of my arch
>> box (now 3.0, but it was the same with older kernels):
>>
>> * Shutdown works OK when on A/C, but, when on battery, the computer ends up
>> with fans on and the On button light on. In this state it is totally
>> unresponsive -- it looks much as it does when it fails to suspend.
>>
>> * But, on battery (and A/C too), it reboots perfectly well. So I've resorted
>> to rebooting when I want to shutdown on battery, and then plugging it off
>> once it gets to the bios screen.
>>
>> I'm sure these will be tell-tale symptoms to more enlightened arch users.
>> For my part, I am totally clueless. I would have suspected an acpid problem,
>> but I have no shutdown event or action enabled. I don't see anything
>> interesting in the logs either.
>>
>> Any piece of advise will be very welcome.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Manolo
>>
> Have you tried to see if this occurs with any other linux distro? Try
> something like Linux Mint or ubuntu. If you can, then see if this
> problem occurs in Windows too.