Trouble with ACPI on sarge -- SOLVED

Answering my own query, for the benefit of future list-readers... Adding acpi=force as a kernel boot parameter (in menu.lst for GRUB) does the trick. charles.

Trouble with ACPI on sarge

Hello all, I'm having trouble getting acpi to work on my Sarge box. (The machine was upgraded from Woody, it's now running kernel 2.6.8-2-686.) apt-get install acpid gives a debconf warning box: Kernel ACPI support │ │