"Turn off" Process

["Henrique Rennó" <henrique.renno@gmail.com>]

Hello!!!

I've installed Debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop (Acer Aspire 3002LCI) and
every time I give the halt command the system starts going down
without showing information on the screen (it turns black) until I
hear a sound that I think it's the hard disk stopping working then I
turn off the computer because it does not turn off by itself.

My doubts are how I could configure Debian to show the proper messages
of services being stopped and things like that when turning off the
system and how the computer could be turned off by itself after
everything has been finished (is there something with APM???).

Thanks for all the attention,

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Regards

--
Henrique
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