How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41)

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Bruce M Simpson wrote:
  > What I'd like to do next is for people with affected machines to run
> acpidump, extract their DSDT, and then run md5 to at least establish
> if they're different; and following on from THAT, to run iasl and diff
> for possibly differing ACPI methods with regards to the CD-RW module.
> 
> In the absence of detailed dumps, this is all I can think of right now.
> 
> This gets us no further to a working hypothesis, but I'm posting this for
> the sake of having more data to work from.

Bruce,
I am an idiot in terms of what you write above, would it make sense for 
you if I gave the machine a public IP and let you have access to it for 
checking the above? Alternatively due to my limited understanding I 
would probably need a little guidance. If it's just a row of commands 
then no problem.

/per olof