begin Christopher Mahmood's quote: | * dep (dep@linuxandmain.com) [030502 12:08]: | > | > Not as far as acpi is concerned. I agree with Dep that ACPI | > | > should be turned off by default. | > | | > | As Phillip already explained we tried that in 8.0 and it was | > | even more of a problem. There some machines that won't even | > | boot if it isn't turned making debugging the problem | > | impossible. Which is better, having a percentage of machines | > | that cannot boot or having a percentage that can boot but don't | > | work properly? | > | > why must it be either? | | Because the two options are mutually exclusive--it's either on or | it's off. You're proposing a third Monte Carlo option that picks | one of the two randomly? acpi=0.75 i'm not talking about that. i'm talking about letting the user decide, in an obvious fashion, right up front, as i described. | > again, a checkbox early on (and one to disable | > hardware detection), | | Not a check box (that won't work on systems without mice) but as I | told you earlier this week (!) there's a 'safeboot' option which | does this. presumably suse remains capable of programming hotkeys for those who do not have mice. and the safe boot option turns off a lot more than acpi. i have never heard of a situation where faulty acpi made ide dma not work, for instance. | > then *everyone* can be happy. | | I don't think you'll be happy until SuSE sends a supporter out to | personally do your installation for you and then makes you lunch. after my recent experiences with yast and sax2, i would be disinclined to eat any such lunch. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.