* dep (dep@linuxandmain.com) [030501 12:55]: -> ->it isn't true of newer hardware -- the machine on which i had the ->difficulty includes a motherboard that was new three weeks ago and ->was released in january, and it will not work with suse's acpi. nor ->will one a year old, nor three that are in the neighborhood of two ->years old. -> If I'm reading this right then your saying that newer hardware won't work with the "kernel" acpi which isn't "SuSE's acpi"? I could be reading this wrong but in case I'm not the I would hope that someone could explain to me why all of my hardware works perfectly with 8.2 and I have disabled nothing in fact all I changed after the install was having both of my CD drives use the ide-scsi module. Other then that I've changed nothing. My machine is a P4 running on an Asus P4PE-L mainboard which isn't all that old of a chipset. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.