this is strange to me as its happend on two machines of mine (one is a sarge install(home) the other the demudi(studio)) both machines had windows. neither the bios nor the hardware has changed. only the installation of linux. Neither will switch off now. However. the home machine is a dual boot and under windows shuts down fine. Under linux...now where was that power button again :( Lee Revell wrote: >On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:19 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > >>And you are sure ACPI is enabled in the kernel config? >> >> > >Actually never mind, you should not need this. None of my machines have >ACPI support compiled in and they all shut down fine. Must be a BIOS >thing. > >Lee > > > >