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ACPI Forced On & Option Disabled in WinXP-Certified Motherboards
stealth_zipper asks: "I just got off the phone with a rep from Soyo Computer Inc trying to get the ability to change IRQs for the onboard hardware. It turns out that because of a deal to get WindowsXP certification, the Dragon-series motherboard ended up having the ability of Enabling/Disabling ACPI in the BIOS disabled. Now FreeBSD has complications with multiple devices on the same IRQs (especially sound, video, and nic all off the same one). Is there a way to get around this for new hardware? Has anyone else encountered this?" Why in the world does XP need this feature disabled, and are there workarounds to get OSes like FreeBSD working properly with motherboards of this sort?
Mine was giant and yellow. Slashdot is going to force me to spend money on "something" with this new ad system, either a new monitor for a higher res, a new mouse cause the wheel is gonna break, or they are going to give me a free subscription.... I don't see any of these happening, and besides, my comment is completely off topic so far. But since I am a Linux user, and have had just about as much contact with Windows aXe Pee as I need, (read seen screenshots and used win2k) I really don't have much input as to how people put their computers to sleep, mine run all the time, but that is mainly due to nfs samba and my webserver nevermind playing RTCW....
You want to me to vote democratic so MS can be spanked by a bunch of clueless politicians paid to do so by fucking MS competition ?
Fuck you too.
You go and tell that to someone in Florida. They did, and it sure didn't help.
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Why does everyone feel the need to jump on the bandwagon and MS bash at every opportunity. I hardly see this as a way of microsoft looking to extend it's monopoly. If that were the case they'd bring out their own line of hardware and windows could run on nothing else. Unfortunately with the legacy of the Office suite most cant afford to up and change ship.
Asking a motherboard manufacturer to remove a feature is hardly cause for all the competition to roll over and die. Why aren't the FreeBSD developers criticised for not being able to support this motherboard without the feature enabled? The cause of many desktop Microsoft bashings in recent times is for nothing other than stability. Sure there are problems with the security, especially in server additions, but most peoples major complain is the "Blue screen of death". If Microsoft is able to flex it's muscles to get hardware developers to create a platform that it can code a more stable OS against, then I definitely wont complain.
Glenn
The Smrt way to trade CFDs on the ASX