fred smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:46:53PM +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: >> fred smith wrote: >> > 1. "shutdown -h now" goes all the way down but does not power down >> > the box like it always has before. Same when shutting down via the >> > GUI shutdown dialog. >> I know this from systems with older processors. For me a >> 'apm=power-off' in the /etc/grub.conf kernel-line does the trick. > would your "older" include an Athlon XP 2600+ ? No, of course not. My older processors are pII, pIII and athlon, from 266MHz to 800MHz. regards Olaf