On Monday, 29 July 2002 14:02, Anders Johansson wrote:

Maybe, but I could swear that this machine shut down properly when I had 7.3 on it.

I'm almost on the verge of reinstalling 7.3 just to prove the point

//Anders

I've been following this thread with great interest. For the past nine months or so, I've been using 7.3, installing (and re-installing many times) fresh. When I had 7.2 (and, before it, 7.1), the computer shutdown properly (as still does on the rare occasions when I'm forced to use W98). With 7.3, it doesn't. No matter what I do, the result is still the same: I have to shut it down myself. I have had APM, APIC and ACPI off, on and then off, as appended to the booter and/or modifying the BIOS, with no visible difference. Precisely to satisfy my curiosity, I re-installed 7.2 (good thing I have a large HD!), and I proved to myself that with 7.2 (as it came from the CD, without any modification on my part) the computer shuts down, as it does with W98 and Mandrake 8.0. But not with SuSE 7.3! This is not a laptop, but an eMachines desktop with AMD K6. BTW, I thought the problem with 7.3 was the 2.4.10 kernel, so I installed the 2.4.18; no difference. -- Regards, gr, in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida's Suncoast.