begin Peter B Van Campen's quote: | Everyone seems to forget that heart of the ACPI problems is the | fact that ACPI support in the kernel code is still not correct. | Until the kernel hackers get it right we are all going to have | these problems. Now many of the ACPI errors in the kernel have been | fixed, but not ALL of them yet. Please be patient, the guys are | working on it and it is only a matter of time. which does give pause to wonder why it is enabled by default. opengl, a rather more mature standard, is disabled by default and indeed if one enables it in sax2, there is an ohmygod message saying that this might not be a good idea. 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, and which the documentation describes only as a power management standard thereby giving no clue that it can, say, fubar your network card, is enabled unless action is taken to disable it. at minimum there is an inconsistency here. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.