Is acpi needed for Desktop computers?

[Andrew Zajac]

On 5/19/06, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ahh, unfortunately, it does not. When, I shutdown my computer, it
> cycles though the shutdown sequence. Then, I hear a click inside the
> box. The monitor goes off but there still power to the fans, CDROMs,
> etc. I could still hear the fan running.
>

You can also try
acpi=force
to see if the acpi modules which were previously being loaded are not being
loaded anymore.  I dunno.  Can you boot the older kernel and see what
modules get loaded and then compare with the Dapper kernel?  Look in dmesg

run
dmesg
from a terminal.
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