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Hi,
I have a notebook Toshiba Satellite L300-1AM with a dual boot system winVista <->linux Mint 6 x64. Almost all is working ok, I had problems enabling the fan and FN+Fx keys to work, but solved when I installed Omnibook module. Now the biggest problem is my notebook is restarting by itself after 4-5 minutes I shutdown it. I tryed on Ubunu 8.10 and 9.04, both x64 and x386, on Linux Mint 6 and OpenSuse11.1(where I had problem with Intel video driver) and the same problem occured with or without omnibook module installed.
When I shutdown the computer, I can hear twice a beep, after that the notebook is going to shutdown. In 4 to 5 minutes is restarting by itself. If I take out the battery and put it back in a few seconds, the notebook doesn't restart.
What can I do to be able to shutdown my notebook in normal way, without having to take out the battery ?
Thank you,
Silviu

I have seen something slightly similar in the forum before so it happens (this is buried in my many posts - was last autumn)
Run lspci (l is a lower case L) in a terminal and post here as well as lsusb
There may be some peculiar hardware in that laptop

Hi,
The problem is the Insyde H20 BIOS on this laptop and there are some new Toshiba Satellite notebooks with this problem. I found here http://swinky-linuxblog.blogspot.com/20 ... -l305.html a solution for my problem. So I put in /boot/grub/menu.lst comment:
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid a91f7379-e93b-490c-b541-0681173bccc2
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=a91f.. ro quiet splash acpi_osi="Linux"
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
So, I'm not using anymore the omnibook module I tried before, the fan is working ok, my notebook doesn't restart by itself from now, remains only to solve the problem with Fn+Fx keys for brightness control.
Thank you for your time and support !
Silviu