I've always thought free software was a good thing

Posted Feb 4, 2010 0:34 UTC (Thu) by Russ.Dill@gmail.com (guest, #52805)
In reply to: I've always thought free software was a good thing by hipparchus2000
Parent article: Greg Kroah-Hartman: Android and the Linux kernel community

Actually, its not PS/2. Its the embedded controller (EC) in your laptop running a bunch of firmware and doing ACPI things. Your EC just so happens to be a bit touchy. In an effort to fix problems on another set of machines with EC's that are touchy in a different way, it broke a small set of other machines including yours. Its fixed in one of the 2.6.32 stable releases. You have touchy hardware, cope.