This is very noobish and stupid but i need to know

[udaki]

When I turn off my redhat 9.0 it says power down and i hear a power down sound but it doesnt turn off everything so i have to press the power button on my compuer.Is this the right way to turn off redhat?Suse appears to not have this problem.So please tell me.

[flap]

Is acpid running?
ps ax | grep acpid

[udaki]

as I said before im a noob at this...so what the heck are those?

[flap]

Just paste it into a terminal:

ps ax | grep acpid

If it returns something like /usr/sbin/acpid then it's running.

[ June 30, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

[udaki]

how do u turn it off and exactly what does it do?

[flap]

It controls power management features of your BIOS. You don't want to turn it off. So it is running then? Does
dmesg | grep ACPI
return anything?