Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:39:46 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
       Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
       linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] [1/3] Generic in-kernel AC status
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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.

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