* dep (dep@linuxandmain.com) [030502 12:32]:
| > 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.
I'm beginning to think that you are just a perl script. Is your real name Mark V. Shaney?
| > 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.
Simply amazing.
i have never heard of a situation where faulty acpi made ide dma not work, for instance.
As far as I know you had never heard of acpi until this week.
| 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.
Ouch. Kudos to your author, they've done a great job. You've clearly passed the Turing test. Goodbye Dep, -- -ckm