Strange behaviour running latest rawhide on Dell Optiplex 760

[Michael Wiktowy]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Allen Kistler <an037-ooai8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It sounds like your machine is aggressively sleeping, and you're waking it
> up momentarily by feeding it ACPI events.  Try the "acpi=off" kernel option.
>  If that works, try backing off to "acpi=ht" to get the use of more than one
> core.  (Turning off ACPI entirely kills SMP, even though it fixes lots of
> other brokenness sometimes.)

Thank you very much Allen and Kirk.

Both acpi=off and acpi=ht made it boot normally.

/Mike