Re: getting ACPI suspend to work (on Dell Inspiron)

[Christian Joensson <christian j-son org>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:44:16PM -0400, Jonathan Baron wrote:
> I have found one reason why acpi might not work.  I have a smp
> kernel, and it produces an error message when loading:
> "S3 and PAE do not like each other".
> I looked up PAE and it seems to be something for handling huge
> amounts of memory.  Given that I have only 1 GB, I might not need
> it.  Does anyone know how to turn it off?  I think there is
> something to add to the "kernel ..." line in grub.conf, but I
> can't find out what the options are for that.

FWIW, I too get this problem, Dell Worskstation 610 (SMP). Doesn't
boot an smp kernel without acpi=off.

Cheers,

/ChJ