if you boot with "debug" on the command line, you should get KERN_DEBUG messages on your console. shut down with # poweroff and the last thing you see printed should be: acpi_power_off called since that is where pm_power_off() goes. If that doesn't work, send your .config thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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