Even latest mainline kernels seem to work (2.6.13-rc6-git5). PCI related diff is not that big, so this shouldn't be that hard to track down. In theory :)
Turns out rc5-bk3 kernel shipped with SUSE 10 boots up properly if acpi interpreter is _enabled_. Disabling it hangs kernel on initialization. Mainline works fine in this respect (with and without acpi). Getting closer.. On the nvidia-driver front it seems that current driver 7667 doesn't like SUSE kernel. Installing kernel module yields error '-1 No such device' and tons of nasty warnings on compilation. Anyone else experiencing these (x86-64)? On third boot fam caused busy loop (enormous sysload) while starting beagle/mono. Killing fam caused mono to go bananas causing another busy loop. -- // Janne