Matthieu, what good things happen if instead of using bjorn's current tweak to simply set STA.present we use your patch here http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3358 which doesn't re-write the bits? Bjorn, will the case that provoked your change still work? it is interesting now to google for: "functional but not present; setting present" it comes up on more than Tiger systems... thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html