For both I still get Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status Asus ACPI: Error switching LCD The only difference is that for s3_bios, the backlight of the LCD is one, but the screen only shows a pretty uninteresting pattern of three or four lines. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)