Re: ACPI _LID failures

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:05:03PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> Well, that was the hope.  Len said they've fixed EC bugs in the past
> only to find that several ACPI methods they assumed were broken
> suddenly started working....

The broken Acer was reading from the wrong registers. I think that's 
pretty strong evidence that Windows doesn't depend on lid state, 
unfortunately.

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