I demand that Axel Beckert may or may not have written... > Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts > Version: 1.1.3 > Severity: critical > Justification: Breaks whole system
> After the upgrade to 1.1.3 my EeePC 701 4G freezes on shortly after setting > the console fonts with a garbled screen (no more readable, looks like lines > being out of sync or so). I have to power it off by pressing the power > button 4 seconds. No more ping, nothing. Due to the garbled screen, I do > not know if there was any kernel panic or so. netconsole may help to determine that, but I wouldn't hold out any hope of it doing so. > It does not happen if I: > * unplug the power supply (not very usable). [snip] > It does happen: [snip kernel-independent] > * as soon as I plug in the power supply (in case I had it unplugged on > startup) the system freezes and garbles the screen, also if running > under X. Interesting. That'd be when it switches, or tries to switch, to high-speed mode. I wonder if this could be BIOS-related; listing both known-good and known-bad BIOS revisions may be useful since we can then blacklist (or whitelist?) and encourage upgrades, or possibly downgrades, where appropriate. ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/EeePC/EeePC4G%28701%29/ should be right for what you have. I see five BIOS versions there: 0401, 0703, 0801, 0910 (all EeePC4G*.zip), and 1302 (701-ASUS-1302.zip). [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/ & http://tlasd.wordpress.com/ Pronounce your prepositions, damn it! _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
