azra: I haven't got my One yet to try it myself, but for the shutdown maybe try adding

rmmod snd-hda-intel

to the top of the file at

/etc/init.d/halt

This is what I read from Eee users who are having shutdown prob, don't if it also works for the One.

Replying to say I really appreciate this and your other post Azra.

I've ordered an aspire one myself, should arrive next week. Good to see pardus works ok for most things. I've tbeen reading though both posts.., is there a overall summary on what I need to do?

and "Abandoned" - I guess nothing worked? A quibble I guess...