(In reply to grant k from comment #9) > Not sure what 'other' hardware you had in mind? Wouldn't the same hardware > be active when booting from the LiveKDE dvd, where shutdown works as > expected? In theory, yes, there should be same. But it's not clear whether really the all modules are same in the same way. And, above all, it's helpful to know whether really an h/w component affects or it's just other non-h/w specific kernel stuff.