* 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
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.
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. -- -ckm