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

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On 3/4/2009 10:29 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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.

Steven is right. To make matters worse, ACPI doesn't specify how these 
hotkeys should be reported to the OS, so each vendor does it 
differently. What type of laptop are you using?

Cheers,
Jared