> > At the time the choice was made there were still lot of boards > > supporting APM, now most only support ACPI anyway so it shouldn't > > have > > any impact onthem. > > If we're talking about power management again here (having real > trouble to follow), I personally don't care whether we use APM or > ACPI > or something else - the box should just power off on shutdown. > > The kernel settings file says ACPI is on by default, so that is > either > wrong or poweroff is not yet implemented or there's a bug, or my No it's not, not with ACPI. It's only supported with APM yet. But you can send a patch :) François.