Hello John, > Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't see anything related to SMM in the > BIOS menus. However, the system has real-time constraints. Thus, I'd > turn SMM off if I knew how :-) Here you can find a driver that can disable and enable the SMI interrupt in the chipset. It supports up to the ICH5 chipsets, but by adding the proper device/vendor IDs you can also make it support newer chipsets. http://www.bohmer.net/smi.tar.bz2 > AFAIU, poweroff is equivalent to halt -p You are right. Kind Regards, Remy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html