thank you! this workaround worked. On 11/9/05, Rudolf Marek <r.marek at sh.cvut.cz> wrote: > > > It's caused by PNPACPI since 2.6.10, > and has been fixed recently. See bug #4014 for additional information: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4014 > If you don't want to upgrade kernels, the workaround is to disable > PNPACPI, either when configuring your kernel or on the boot command line > (pnpacpi=off). >