Re: Disabling ACPI also implicitly disables SMP support for Intel Atom chips?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:25:35 -0500
"David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost> wrote:

> 
> The other thing I've noticed is that the brightness keys work if ACPI
> is disabled, but they don't work if it's enabled.  (That seems odd to
> me, but I'm no expert at these things.)
> 
That actually makes more sense -- with ACPI enabled, they're probably
passed to the OS for the software to handle.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb