On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:12, Ben Reser wrote: > Well people with those machines have reported that enabling ACPI in > their kernel's usually fixes their problems. But I personally haven't > tried it. I don't really care I'm not so lazy that I can't press the > power button.
It's kind of handy for the hit-shutdown-leave-house-running scenario when you're doing last minute stuff. I have a dual PPro200 box that powers down the drives one by one but won't power off; my wife's previous box would kernel-panic instead of powering down, but everything else is well-behaved. Cheers; Leon