Hi! > > AMD64 laptops are booting with lower freqs per default until they are > > pushed up, so there shouldn't be anything critical? > > This is not true as far as my box is concerned (Asus L5D). It starts with > the _highest_ clock available. Not all laptops have underpowered batteries. And I have seen machine that booted fast with underpowered battery... not nice. Would crash in POST in 30% cases. > > > For the brightness part, I don't see any "laptop is going to explode" > > issue. > > I always hated the brightness going down when I unplugged ac on M_ > > Currently I have the same problem on Linux, but I don't know the solution > (yet). Any hints? :-) Work around acpi bios... not going to be nice. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms