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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
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...
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.
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