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008. I have shut down my system with the "halt" command and gotten to a message saying "System Halted" but why is my computer still on?

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This article is from the the Brief Linux FAQ (BLFAQ) Maintained by Neil Zanella nzanella@ganymede.cs.mun.ca

008. I have shut down my system with the "halt" command and gotten to a message saying "System Halted" but why is my computer still on?

If you want it to power off on shutdown then you must recompile the kernel to enable support for that feature by selecting the appropriate entry in the APM options.

 

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previous page: 007.  I can log in and out of my system but how do I shut it down / reboot it?page up: Brief Linux FAQnext page: 009.  My new video card is listed at <http://www.linux.org/> as a card which the X Window System supports under Linux but I cannot get it to work.