> > >>Hi all >>I realise this is not the place to ask such a question but rather than >>subscribing to yet another forum I ask first just in case. >>I have demudi working now, all except it turning the machine off. It >>goes to shut down the last line on the screen is Power Down but then it >>just sits there. I have to physically turn it off. >>any ideas? >> >> > >I'm experiencing the exact same thing with Mandrake's "multimedia" >kernels. I haven't been bothered enough by it to try and fix it, but if >you find an easy fix, please let me know. =) > > > Hi, I could fix this stuff by adding "apm=off acpi=force" in my grub.conf file. (someting like that: "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc3.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet apm=off acpi=force") This works for me but I know that it didn't for some others. Hmm.. now that I know that it could cost some latency ms, I might not use that anymore... Yves