ACPI And Dell Inspiron 8200

Hi,

	Someone recently pointed out that I had all my items on the same
IRQ, and that I should go ACPI. 

	I tried to activate it in the 4.9 I was running, but it would
die on boot.

	So, I bought a new hard drive for my laptop to test install it (I 
also worried since it has nVidia as a graphics card, and worried that'd 
be the bigger issue!)

	I've installed current, and everything is still on the same 1
IRQ. Is there some resource I can go to see what to do about finding out
why, and how to troubleshoot, or is there something I need to do extra
that I didn't know/see?  I do see things like :

Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0a331cc.
  Features=0x3febf9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,P
AT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
acpi0: <DELL   CPi R  > on motherboard
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f2-0
x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
ppc0 port 0x778-0x77b,0x378-0x37f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%

		Thanks, Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc.