On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Francis Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I wonder if it might be even better to disable it by > > default. Nothing turns people off like an OS that doesn't install. > > It should CERTAINLY be turned off on the install CDs and floppies! It > was VERY frustrating to boot the CD on my laptop and have it crash > after a few minutes. Kinda hard to get a crash dump, either.
The issue is, ACPI is needed to route interrupts for certain computers (namely, laptops). Without it being on, many laptops could not install the OS. I personally would prefer it being off by default with a recommendation to laptop users to enable it during the install in the install notes. But before the conversation gets off topic, I want to know where acpi disabling is documented so I can point people to the doc instead of answering the same question over and over. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
