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Laptops are one of the hardest pieces of hardware to support for any operating system. Many times, the company that constructs the hardware has to tweak a chipset to make it fit in the confined structure or meet certain power requirements. These changes are usually only documented internally for trade secret reasons and can only be reverse-engineered or worked around.

When Red Hat Support finds itself with a laptop question, our first (and sometimes only) reference is the Linux Laptop Pages, which can be found at http://www.linux-laptop.net.