Dear Ben,
thanks for the answer. Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 10:21 -0300 schrieb Ben Armstrong: > On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:11:32 +0200 > Paul Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well I thought it was a place to make it easier to test things out and > > fix some bugs before they are good enough enter Debian. > > Not really. That's what unstable is for (and experimental, if things > are not suitable for unstable). No, this is for things that really > aren't suitable to go into the main archives. For example, there will > never be a Debian atl1e package. It will go into the kernel itself > instead. (Well, I should not say "never" ... if it takes too long to get > accepted into the kernel, we might again do the same as we did with > atl2 and provide an extra package in Debian). Understood. > > Do you mean in general or in this particular case of eeepc-linux? Was > > there a request to include it into Linux? > > Either/or. I know nothing. :) Check the kernel list. Has anyone > submitted a patch? > > > To be honest I do not much know about all this stuff. I just know that > > 1680 * 1050 resolution on VGA is not supported on the EeePC a friend of > > mine owns and the 22" monitor cannot be used. > > Very strange, since I use it all of the time on my 701 (with the Eee on > AC power usually, if that makes a difference). Can you please post your BIOS version. Either in the BIOS when booting or maybe with dmidecode or so? > > Looking at [1] it appears that not much is going on since January 2008 > > and there are some patches. So this can mean it is working alright for > > the project owner or it is developed somewhere else or something else. > > Don't know. > > > So who do you think could be questioned to this regard? > > The author? Ok. I will see, what I can do on Monday. > > So it would be nice to get some feedback under Debian, so that I can > > save myself some problems others already have fixed. > > Something strange is happening with the monitor. I don't think you > should have to resort to using eee.ko to make it work. (Or maybe, if > you are using this, it is the *cause* of the problem? But take a look at the forum. I am not the only one. > Have you tried without it?) No I have not, since at my friends house, the old 10 year old computer does not support such high resolutions. Thanks, Paul
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