why I issue shut down now on RH linux 9 doesn't really shut it down? it stays at prompt I have to press that power botten again...
thanks

apm or acpi may not have been correctly inserted into your redhat 9 kernel

perhaps try upgrading your kernel, see if apm or acpi startsup at bootup, and post lsmod here

my lsmod is:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3484 0 (autoclean)
udf 91712 0 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33436 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 31040 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd]
parport_pc 17508 1 (autoclean)
lp 8580 0 (autoclean)
parport 33952 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs 12148 0 (autoclean) (unused)
via-rhine 14832 0
mii 3720 0 [via-rhine]
usb-storage 63860 0
scsi_mod 102616 1 [usb-storage]
keybdev 2720 0 (unused)
mousedev 5204 1
hid 20772 0 (unused)
input 5632 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 73088 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]
ext3 64704 2
jbd 47828 2 [ext3]

can u tell me how to enable the APM or ACPI at startup time to solve this problem?
thanks

Although I didn't have that prob with RH I did have it with Fedora on my laptop.

In your grub.conf or lilo add "acpi=on" to the end line that boots your kernel, worked for me