Neil Dugan wrote: > Hi I have an old compaq computer, when it had Fedora on it I could do a > short press of the power button, and the computer would shut-down nicely. > > I have since upgraded to Debian, the problem is that pressing the power > button no longer shuts the computer down. Load the acpi kernel module, install the acpid Debian package. Your computer will shutdown nicely whenever you press the power button.