Re: Stripping down 8.0

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost (Mouse) writes:

>I'm not sure whether the right fix is to drop acpiwmi or add back
>acpiec or acpiecdt, so...what _is_ acpiwmi?

Windows Management Instrumentation. It's a call into ACPI to retrieve
information about the machine, apparently invented by Microsoft.

We use it to get access to some notebook function keys (radio,
volume, brightness, etc..).

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