sleepyANDdopey

Ok well I'm confused. I have a compaq Presaro 1200X106 notebook (VIA Mobo, AMD K2 475, 6 Gig HD, 160 Ram, Trident Video) and for some reason a shutdown does not full shut the system down. The system worked fine under Windoze 98, ME, 2000 and XP with automatic power down working fine. Redhat tells be to turn of APM, which makes no sense since APM worked fine with the MS software, plus when I turn APM off I loose my battery monitor. I'm thinking somebody most had found away around this wierdness. What happens - Do shutdown from Gnome (or "shutdown" or "poweroff" in terminal) System shutsdown normally final message "flushing HD" (perfectly normal) then screen goes blank but - Power stays on! 8) The power will stay on until battery completly flat. The only workaround is to holddown the power button for something like 2 hours (ok 10 sec) until the system does a hard power off. If you hold it down for 1 sec too long and it will start booting again, which (thanks compaq) requires you either let it completely reload or be prepared to reset your bios settings because Compaq thinks you have a bio error (god they suck ;( ). If I listen to RedHat and disable APM I loose my battery monitor, loose about 1 hours of run time and I still have to do a hard shut down, I just get a nice "shutdown system" message after "flushing HD." This notebook is 100% APM compatable so I don't get it. Any thoughts.....

Well at least I know what it is - now do I want to go to the trouble to fix it. I hate dealing with the kernel (hence why I use Redhat). Thanks