i'm not really excited about a DMI workaround, but I'm applying it b/c it addresses the problem at hand. Hopefully a more permanent fix will emerge over time. thanks, Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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