Thanks; this worked for me in edgy rc when I had the same problem but I hadn't tried this machine with dapper so not exactly like your situation.
However the problem on my machine was that apm didn't power off the machine correctly where as previously (with several other older distributions) it had powered off without the need to force the acpi because the bios date according to dmesg is 1999, so I don't think I have ever used acpi on this machine. I think this bug may be another duplicate of #43961 "Power down after shutdown does not work..." as there are confirmations within #43961 that include this behaviour in edgy. -- [edgy] Need acpi=force to get working suspend and power down https://launchpad.net/bugs/66299 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
