Just a brief follow-up to the recent messages from Niccolo Rigacci and Davide Cavalca. I'm also pleased to say that I am happily using a DebianEeePC installation on my new EeePC 900 - my thanks to all the developers and contributors who have made this possible!
Lack of working sound with the 2.6.24 kernel was a big issue for me (one of the main things that I want to use my 900 for is as a portable media player). I downloaded a linux-2.6.25.4 tarball from kernel.org, made oldconfig using the config from the DebianEeePC 2.6.24 kernel as a basis, and used kernel-package to build a deb. Then I used eeepc-acpi-source and atl2-source in conjunction with module-assistant to build modules. The resulting kernel and modules work well enough for my purposes, though I get the impression that there are still some unresolved issues in the interaction between the sound hardware, the snd-hda-intel driver and ACPI. Specifically: The machine does not correctly power off after shutdown, unless the snd-hda-intel driver is removed first (this can be worked around by putting an S script to rmmod the driver in /etc/rc0.d/). The sound doesn't work when the system resumes after suspend - in this situation it behaves much like the sound in the 2.6.24 kernel, the module is loaded, the devices exist in /dev and can be opened by programs, but nothing is heard when one tries to play sound. This can be worked around by manually removing and reloading the the snd-hda-intel module after a resume. I have just started playing with PowerTOP, and I notice that the system uses the C3 state until the sound device is used. Once sound has been used (however briefly) it never goes below C2. Again, rmmod/modprobe on snd-hda-intel "fixes" things and the system starts going into C3 again (until the next sound is played). Regards, Neil. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
