turn off after halt comand
 

How can I make my computer turn off after i give the halt command? I think it is something related with enabling the ACPI function but i don't know how.

Yes, I believe you're right... and I think that it's something you need to have enabled in the BIOS, hopefully someone will be along who can confirm this shortly :)

well it is enabled. when i had redhat on the same system with the same config it worked

did you check commands like shutdown (I don't remember arguments) and 'init 0' ?

yes i did and it still waits for me to press the power button on the case

Did you try to
modprobe acpi
?

nope... doesn't work

I find that on my computer it's the apm module that needs to be enabled, as opposed to the acpi one. in slackware you need to uncomment the line in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (if I remember rightly) which says /sbin/modprobe apm. reboot your machine, and next time you shutdown, it should completely turn off. it could be slightly different in red hat, although I'm sure the principle is roughly the same...

EDIT: maybe modprobe apm?

Well, I don't remember any wrong modprobe command which brings more havoc than reboot. And most of them just fail. Try.

if i do a lsmod i get:
if i modprobe apm i don't get no message and if i halt it doesn't shutdown it still waits for me to touch that button :(

might be worth checking in your BIOS settings to see if there's an apm option, to make sure that's enabled as i had to change that too.

of course, it could just be that apm isn't the solution...

yes it is enabled. The last distro that i had on this pc was fedora core 3 and it worked just fine with halt, but then i didn't pay any atention on how it halts.

ah, I've got no more ideas then. sorry :)

I recently had the same problem with ubuntu dapper (on a 5 years old computer). I added the line to /etc/modules. Then it worked for me.

now i've notice during boot time the following message:
It is related to my problem ?