Your experience with ACPI is very common. Here's what Linus Torvalds had to say in 2003: "ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of st

Your experience with ACPI is very common. Here's what Linus Torvalds had to say in 2003: "ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we're kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce." http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7279 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7279