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Apparently debian tries to use acpi by default and I suspect your bios may
be too old. You might try acpi=force lapic as two boot parameters on the
kernel lines in menu.lst. After that's done try aptitude dist-upgrade as
root and when that's finished try shutdown -h now and power off the system
if necessary and wait a minute then power back up and after logging in as
root do shutdown -h now and see if anything improves. I have a Dell over
here with circa 1999 cmos and acpi won't run without acpi=force here. A
consequence I found with not having acpi running is that cd burning
doesn't work. I'm using the speakup version of debian but at kernel level
2.6.18. When I have this system shutdown, it actually works and the
system turns off.
