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From: Igor Partola <ipartola@pisem.net>
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Subject: Re: Again about Dell Inspiron 8x00
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To be exact it was 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 and 2.6.10 vanilla that worked.

It seems to me that certain functions of the ACPI are better off left 
alone as overriding them just causes trouble.

For example: when there is no ACPI support in kernel closing the lid 
switches the display off and Fn+F3 brings me to BIOS settings. Once ACPI 
is loaded though these functions don't seem to work. So maybe they 
shouldn't be overridden until it is known that the overriding code in 
the kernel ACPI works well enough to handle it? Or maybe sysctl could be 
used to switch between BIOS and kernel ACPI to be in charge of turning 
off the display and such?

Respect,
Igor