[Nottingham] SOLVED Ubuntu shutdown on Acer E15

[Mike Martin]

Thanks for this - I had the same issue on a ES1-512 which is part of the
same line.

On Fedora 21 the modules have been renamed (assuming not a typo) to
 dw_dmac
  dw_dmac_core


On 6 April 2015 at 09:42, Bob Marshall <kingsknight3 at gmx.com> wrote:

> Nicely done, Godfrey, and congratulations on tracking your problem down so
> well. I hope you had a great Easter with your family and can rest on your
> laurels a bit, now you are well on the way to being a Linux guru!
>
> Bob
>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 06, 2015 at 7:45 AM
> *From:* "Godfrey Nix" <godfrey at gnnix.co.uk>
> *To:* nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
> *Subject:* [Nottingham] SOLVED Ubuntu shutdown on Acer E15
> Hello folks,
>
> Finally solved problem of getting daughter's new laptop to shutdown and
> completely power off. Spent long time going through all the askubuntu
> pages and tried all sorts of ideas from modifying parameters in grub to
> blacklisting various modules.
>
> The one that worked on this machine was to edit
> modprobe.conf/blacklist.conf and add lines to blacklist two modules -
> blacklist dw_mac
> blacklist dw_mac_core
>
> After rebooting, the machine now powers off when I select shutdown.
>
> Maybe when I have some spare time I will look at those modules to try
> and find out why they cause the problem, but for now I am happy to have
> it fixed.
>
> Godfrey
>
>
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