getting ACPI suspend to work (on Dell Inspiron)

[Christian Menzel]

On Fr, 2004-05-07 at 18:05, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:11:04PM +0200, Christian Menzel wrote:
> > This might be a stupid question, but is it possible to compile the
> > kernel with APM enabled and have things working as before in 2.4.x
> > kernels?
> 
> Boot with "acpi=off" and try that

Yes, that did the trick! 
When using "acpi=off" apmd is started when booting and everything is
working as before, no need to recompile since apm support is build into
the kernel.

Thank you,
Christian
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Christian Menzel <chris at menzel.com>