actually -7 works with both acpi=force or without it, it is disabled as a default, as a for safety reasons by the kernel. I've left it off, as forcing revealed a lot of debug output i was not sure about. keeping it off require me to power off using the hardware button in the end of the shutdown process.
processor is a Celeron m380 1,6GHz -- [edgy] kernel panic after last update https://launchpad.net/bugs/61848 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs