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9 Nov
2004
9 Nov
'04
23:31
Okay... With acpi=on the kernel reports: "ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old" However with acpi=force I can power off after shutdown fine. And I've used a 2.4 smp kernel with software suspend patches before without incident. Why is ACPI a requirement for suspend to disk anyway? I wouldn't mind doing a software suspend and then having to manually turn off my computer.