Ignoramus17662 wrote:

> When I mentioned that my Hardy server was locking up, someone
> suggested to disable ACPI. Which I did and I hope that it is going to
> fix the problem.
>
> But why is that so? Why is ACPI such a common source of troubles?
>
> Is there some design flaw with ACPI itself, or Linux implementation
> thereof?

AFAIK, the very complicated ACPI-tables in the BIOS are
often flawed.

Since a PC that doesn't run Windows ist unsalable, the
distributors are testing carefully and developing
workarounds for Windows.

But not so for Linux.

So, the chance that Linux is stumbling over such flaws,
is much higher. But it's not a Linux flaw.

Gunter