If memory serves you have to have power management fully enabled in the BIOS 
then  it will shut down automaticallu.

Stewart

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 9:52 am, you wrote:
> Hello all
>
> This should be a fairly simple one: when I log out from Linux, my PC goes
> through the whole shutdown process, displays 'power down' on the screen,
> and then waits for me to manually switch the machine off. Is this a Linux
> feature or should the PC be able to switch itself off?
> By the way, it will happily reboot the machine if I ask it to, and Win98
> has no problems switching off the PC itself.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> machine runs Win98/Mandrake 8.1
> Duron 800Mhz
> 128MB ram
> Gigabyte VIA KT133E motherboard.
> hard drive: Western Digital 20GB
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> sound: soundblaster PCI128 (detected as Ensoniq 5880)
> CD burner: Aopen CRW9624
>
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