Regarding SD card problems, check http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2008-August/000837.html
I switched to debian kernel 2.6.27 and that solved my troubles with sd cards. Pedro On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Luca Capello <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there! > > Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed to the list, TIA. > > As reported at bug #509765 [1], I installed lenny on a 1000H, with no > problem at all WRT the Debian part (i.e. GDM nicely showed up at the > reboot), but only with the first NTFS partition (resizing seemed to work > OK, but now Windows XP cannot boot anymore). > > The following are my quick tests on the default installation, i.e. > without the tricks on the Debian wiki. > > > 1) /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts > > a. VOLUME_LABEL needs to be changed to 'Master' or 'PCM' (there is no > 'LineOut' control) > > b. HEADPHONE_LABEL must be changed as well, in this case to > 'Headphone' (there is no 'iSpeaker' control). > > OTOH, as far as I read both variables above they seem to be > similar, which is a bit misleading, since the headphone is only a > switch. And their meaning is not really clear... > > c. There are no OSD notifications for brightness changes. > > d. OSD works when aosd-cat is installed, but in general I would > prefer the basic functions (brightness and sound) directly > supported by GNOME (or KDE or $WHATEVER). > > I tested Tomaz Solc's patch [2], taking /usr/bin/acpi_fakekey and > /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants from acpi-suppor: they work > as expected, thanks Tomaz! I am not sure I will have the time to > adapt them to the brightness keys, but IMHO we should. > > e. Some softkeys on the 1000H model are different from the > "standard" ones [3]: > > F3 -> empty > F4 -> empty > F5 -> brightness decrease > F6 -> brightness increase > F7 -> blank screen (like SOFTBTN1) > F8 -> switch screen > F9 -> task manager > F10 -> sound mut > F11 -> sound decrease > F12 -> sound increase > > However, all softkeys known to work still do it even if the > associated key has been changed. > > f. The "switch screen" softkey should be adjusted to work as the user > manual reports, i.e. cycle through > > LCD only -> CRT only -> clone mode -> extended mode > > NB, my intent was not to criticize: a long time ago I started to > work on a shell script to do exactly that on my ThinkPad X60 [4], > but I put that work on hold since then because the solution with > xrandr was less than trivial... > > > 2) wireless > > a. The switch (Fn+F2) works out of the box, but not disabling it > through the sysfs value > > /sys/module/eeepc_laptop/drivers/platform\:eeepc/eeepc/wlan > > b. The led, however, seems to be always on. According to the user > manual, it should be on only when the wireless is activated. I > guess this is because of the RT2860 driver. > > c. As explained in the Debian Wiki [5], indeed I can connect to two > WPA/WPA2 APs (both Fonera 2100A) only specifying the TKIP cipher. > > > 3) Webcam, bluetooth and SD card reader work out of the box. The same > applies to suspend/hibernate, tested from GNOME. > > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca > > Footnotes: > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/509765 > [2] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/2008-December/001724.html > [3] > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#head-7b20dbd395dc85ab2bbe201c8f2af0b7d71527bc > [4] http://luca.pca.it/projects/ibm/x60_1706-gmg/ > [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Wifi/Rt2860 > > _______________________________________________ > Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > > _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
