Shutdown hangs at: "ACPI_power_off_called".

[Markus Kolb]

On 12.10.2004 16:02, Bill Stoye wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 23:18 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:11:00PM EST, Bill Stoye wrote:
>>
>>>>>Is it possible that your computer doesn't support ACPI?
>>>>>Maybe you should try APM.

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> Boot hangs up when I add acpi=off. Forgotten, I had tried that a few
> days ago, the symptoms are the same... I'm looking at a reinstall I'm
> afraid; this has been going on for too long. It's just a nagging issue,
> other wise has no effect on the operation that I can tell.

Ok. I've found your post with the dmesg output. Of course your computer 
should support ACPI.
Do you know which mainboard you have?

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Markus