Comment 31 for bug 36158

To answer Corsaire01, yes my "System does not power off on shutdown" problem was on an old hand-me-down HP OmniBook 4150 notebook with a Pentium III Coppermine CPU, apprently my BIOS was "born" in the year 1999.

It seems to me that the "System does not power off on shutdown" bug resports here can generally be categorised into 2 main portions,
1) People who have old hardware with BIOS older then 2000 (like me :)
2) People who genuinely have ACPI or BIOS problem. (like Corsaire01)

I admit I have no idea what is the different between ACPI and APM. But looking at the perspective that it is only 5 days to June (exactly when in June Dapper will be release?) and that I did not see any mention of the 2000 year cutoff date set in the Kernel-2.6.15, other then a brief "dmesg" line from Andrew Zajac earlier. I feel that this information may help filter out the old BIOS problem category and have developers concentrate on actual ACPI or BISO problems category.

So what can be done to have this information out to help users of actual 6.06 Dapper (to be release in June, and assuming this is still not fixed) to do a self diagnostic first before filing an actual ACPI/BIOS problem (and cut out the old BISO problem noise)? Perhaps a wiki page on this old BIOS issue? I bring this up because when I encounter the problem a few days ago, there was not much info on this issue after googling.