http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043#c1 --- Comment #1 from Terence Silk 2010-05-09 04:06:55 UTC --- My humble apologies. I should have been more diligent before I submitted this bug. After I had completed the submission I was left with a very uneasy feeling that I had overlooked something so I tried to analyse why. It soon dawned on me that it seemed a bit daft to claim to have have 3 PC's with working PowerNow! functionality and yet totally non-ACPI BIOSes. When I examined the BIOS detail of the 3 PC's which were giving ACPI error messages with Automatic Configuration Install (why didn't I do that before?) I realised that I had blundered because they all just appeared to be slightly elderly ACPI BIOses (for example: 2003/2004 American Megatrends Inc AMIBIOS A6702VMS V1.8 072804 ; Pheonix Award BIOS V6.00PG). I had leapt to the wrong conclusion earlier (during Automatic Configuration installation attempts) because 3 PC's produced ACPI related error messages on 1st reboot during (failed) installation whereas successful installation was achieved when I had tried the acpi=off option (I haven't mentioned this here before). However, I now see that this does not establish evidence of non-ACPI BIOSes. My best guess is that the Automatic Configuration module and some BIOSes probably follow different ACPI rules. It is nevertheless strange that non-automatic configuration sorts thing out (without using the acpi=off switch). Under the circumstances, it may be appropriate to remove this submission as it seems far less certain what my observations really mean or how everything should be worded (especially the title). However if you disagree and you want to discuss it, I will do my best to help sort things out. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043#c Lukas Ocilka changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Installation |Kernel AssignedTo|locilka@novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com QAContact|jsrain@novell.com |qa@suse.de -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=604043#c3 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #3 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2010-06-01 16:02:21 UTC --- Ok, will close out, thanks for letting us know. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.