Hi! > >This is not true as far as my box is concerned > >(Asus L5D). It starts with > >the _highest_ clock available. > Hmm, but then there shouldn't be any critical > overheat problems and if, > the hardware has to switch off the machine > hard. OS always could freeze, > but the battery must not start to burn... I told that to hw designers... too late. Fortunately batteries usually only crash machine if you overload them. > IMO, the /sys/.../brightness patch should go in > as soon as possible, I think > all everybody agrees here? Yep. > Maybe I oversaw an issue, but I really don't > see a reason for connecting > the brightness to ac in kernel space. We are not going to connect it. But to implement .../brightness, you need to know ac/battery on several "broken" notebooks. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms