begin "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:37:47 -0500)
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > Good discussion on this topic.. I'd like to add that during some of my > > testing on UnitedLinux 1.0 w/2.4.19 kernel, which has acpi enabled, we > > found all kinds of wierdness going on from NIC's that weren't recognized > > or couldn't ping out on the lan to SCSI issues where the kernel couldn't > > initialize the hardware on the SCSI chain. > > > > SuSE told us to us ACPI=OFF or ACPI=OLDBOOT..These boot options did fix > > the problem. Seems that the ACPI stuff in the 2.4.19 kernel is a little > > whacky.. So you'll want 2 things, the newest kernel, and its related > > ACPI patches, and a machine with a sufficiently new BIOS.. For example, > > if the BIOS rev date isn't 2000 or later the kernel wont even start the > > ACPI stuff... > > I thought the problems were with buggy mobo's, not necessarily in the ACPI code. At least that's the impression I got from the UL team. -- Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eisgr.com/ Enterprise Information Systems *Network Consulting, Integration & Support *Web Development and E-Business _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
