Sorry, i forget to note something in my last post: The patch goes into drivers/acpi/ec.c. Please note that patches to the very same file exist (from the same author) to deal with the second nasty 2.6.26 bug for Asus Eee users: #494546. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724 i.e. comment #120. Robert Epprecht