Robert wrote: > on me! There was a BIOS update available that I "just never got around > to installing". With the BIOS updated, I removed the kernel boot > argument and ntpd still works properly. Maybe they are tightening up ACPI parsing to be more standards compliant... good thing in the long run, but too bad for older hardware. On a server I have, there are newer BIOSes available that fix ACPI parsing problems... but alas, when I upgrade BIOS the agpgart hangs. I have not found a way to disable agpgart with a kernel parameter, it is a server with no agp anyway. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.