At the system prompt I typed 'dmesg" and found within the listing the following items: ... ... [ 21.627126] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT [ 21.627725] ACPI: EC: GPE=0x19, ports=0x66, 0x62 [ 21.664043] ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux) [ 21.664045] ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux" [ 21.664046] Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ 2..... At a system prompt, the test resulted in the following: msj@lptp:~$ acpi_osi=!Linux bash: !Linux: event not found msj@lptp:~$ Machine is a Lenovo 3000 C200 operating with Kubuntu 7.1 top few lines of dmesg are : [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-16-generic (buildd@rothera) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 2 01:27:50 GMT 2009 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-16.62-generic) I will be updating to Kubuntu 9.04 shortly. martin Stanley-Jones -- 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