On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:18:08 +0000 James Caldow <debian@loupegarrou.com> wrote: > > As for your issues, I don't want to risk asking the obvious but have you > made sure that ACPI and/or APM packages are installed on your system? Yes, they are installed and I finally got some time to look at things. Adding "apm" to the /etc/modules file did the trick and now all is fine. thanks in any event. ed lawson