begin Christopher Mahmood's quote: | * Linux World 999 (linuxworld999@yahoo.co.uk) [030502 11:17]: | > > Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I think SuSE has done | > > quite well in informing the user about these things and how to | > > get around most of them. | > | > 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? again, a checkbox early on (and one to disable hardware detection), along with a note not unlike the one users receive in sax2 when they attempt to enable 3d, would make things just fine for everyone. the note for acpi might include the fact that in some cases the problem is not discovered until installation is complete, but then pci devices may not function properly; if so, adding acpi=off as a boot parameter might solve the problem. as to what is the default, i do not care so long as the option of changing it is made obvious. then *everyone* can be happy. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.