The interrrupt 47 shows (with powertop) a curious "Description" : [@^EM-W] under a stable Gentoo Linux at a Thinkpad T400 - the BIOS is the latest available. FWIW I attached the output of the command $>cat /proc/interrupts -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3