begin Philipp Thomas's quote: | Of cause there's still some pieces missing, but the number of | boards with broken ACPI implementation is also quite huge. I | remember reading somewhere that the ACPI blacklist in W2K has about | 2000 entries! okay, granted. and if the purpose of the exercise is assigning blame, the job is done. if, however, the purpose of the exercise is getting suse running on customers' machines, then acpi defaulting to off, with documentation describing how to turn it on, would seem to be the right thing to do, don't you agree? the reason acpi is broken in so many places is that intel, toshiba, and microsoft corporation have every reason to keep the standard just far enough out of reach that it is not easy for other companies to embrace. it would seem that an open source company, of all organizations, would understand and sympathize with this. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.