On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote:
Messages sent to my address directly are explicitly not filtered
into the folders I have set up for various mailing lists, so that
if someone does send me a "heads up" reply for a specific topic on
a list to which I am subscribed it does not get caught by the list
filter and fail to come to my attention. If a message fails to be
filtered into any mailing-list folder, then I should be able to
conclude that it is specifically intended for me, and not part of
normal mailing-list traffic. The practice of sending replies to
both addresses renders this an invalid conclusion. I do not think
that it is unreasonable to expect that conclusion to be valid.
It's not unreasonable. Neither is Aristotelian physics.
Nevertheless, neither one is a good match to reality.
Why not arrange instead that messages sent from a mailing list server
_do_ get filtered into the corresponding folder, even if they were
also sent to your address? This certainly should make your
assumption (that messages not filtered into any mailing-list folder
are specifically intended for you) much more valid than it is now.
Until this thread, I was not even aware that ACPI was related to
USB; I had largely conflated it with a similar acronym which I
think is related to power management and which I can suddenly not
even find in my kernel config. I will, however, look into
linux-acpi.
ACPI isn't directly related to USB; rather it has to do with
transferring information between the OS and the BIOS/vendor-specific-hardware. Power management is example where
such a transfer is needed. In your case, the relevant information is
which IRQ is connected to which motherboard device. If you don't
have ACPI enabled in your configuration, then perhaps that's the
problem -- try enabling it.
That will not be helpful for the other two problems, however, since
neither of them was ever working as far as I am aware. That also
leaves me hesitant to conclude that they are rooted in the same IRQ
issue as the USB problem appears to be.
Maybe they aren't. But when you have multiple bugs, you have to fix
them one at a time.