Bug#352891: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686: halt doesn't power off with apm

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686
Version: 2.6.17-9
Followup-For: Bug #352891

with linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 (2.6.16-18) whenever i did an /sbin/halt,
it would completely turn off my system. 

after upgrading the kernel it just sits there with the "System halted."
message until i manually power it off.

i tried with apm=power-off and apm=poweroff, with no luck (though 2.6.16
didn't require specifying any apm= at the boot prompt).

this is on an old 300MHz IBM Thinkpad 240.

live well,
  vagrant

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.80       tools for generating an initramfs
ii  module-init-tools             3.2.2-3    tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 recommends:
pn  libc6-i686                    <none>     (no description available)

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