dep <dep@linuxandmain.com> [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:28:33 -0400]:
which does give pause to wonder why it is enabled by default.
maybe because there are a number of systems that won't boot without ACPI support?
opengl, a rather more mature standard,
You're comparing apples with oranges. OpenGL in itself is standard and software 3D (mesasoft) works flawlessly (albeit slow as molasses). It's the *implementation*, more specifically the support for *hardware acceleration* as implemented in the drivers that sometimes leaves a lot to wish for.
there is an ohmygod message saying that this might not be a good idea.
Experience tells us to do that, yes.
but acpi, which is at least in a state of flux, and which the vast majority of users and would-be users know nothing about,
google for ACPI and you'll be astonished what you find.
and which the documentation describes only as a power management standard
Ah yes, you'd call http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_acpi.html and http://www.suse.de/en/private/products/suse_linux/i386/acpi.html no documentation?
thereby giving no clue that it can, say, fubar your network card, is enabled unless action is taken to disable it.
It doesn't fubar your nic, the ACPI BIOS just doesn't assign interrupts correctly -> broken BIOS implementation. To me this all sounds as if you're on some kind of a holy crusade and I'd ask you to please carry it somewhere else or discuss in a sensible way. Thank you. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas work: pthomas@suse.de Development, SuSE Linux AG private: philipp.thomas@t-link.de