I demand that Shawn Lamson may or may not have written... > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:21:04 +0000 > Darren Salt <[email protected]> wrote: >> I demand that Shawn Lamson may or may not have written... >>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:24:10 +0000 >>> Darren Salt <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I demand that Shawn Lamson may or may not have written... >> [snip; SHE-triggered freeze while on mains] >>>>> Has anyone else seen this issue? >>>> Some 700-series users. Never before a 901 user or, for that matter, any >>>> user of _any_ Atom-based model (that I know of); my 901's certainly >>>> never shown a problem. >>>> OOI, which BIOS version? (I'm using 2103.) >>> it's ASUS 901 ACPI BIOS Revision 1703 >> Hmm. I don't recall exactly which BIOS version was present when I first >> tested S.H.E. support... I say upgrade.
> according to this page there is no newer bios for 901 > http://update.eeepc.asus.com/bios/ > is there some other source for them? ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/EeePC/EeePC901/901-ASUS-2103.zip >>>> Your kernel configuration may also be relevant. >>>> [snip] > which particular values would you think would impact it? ACPI, I2C, cpufreq are most likely. >>> Also - I double checked and the boot message [about setting the S.H.E. >>> state] appears regardless of the BIOS setting, but flipping the "Intel >>> Speed Step Tech" definitely triggers the behavior ... >> This is looking like a different problem. Which cpufreq driver is loaded, >> and which governor are you using? (ACPI & ondemand, in my case.) > acpi_cpufreq? and I never set the governor, so I am assuming by default it > is using ondemand (that is the one reported to be in use by cpufreq-info) That should be fine, then... > I tried booting up on battery with the speed step option enabled in bios, > verified everything was working okay, then rmmod the acpi_cpufreq module.. > of course CPU frequency was no longer being reported nor controlled after > the rmmod, but if I plugged in to AC the box didn't freeze up. That's... odd. However, I have these built-in, which may be relevant (but shouldn't be). [snip] > is there an alternative to this module, or some tweaking that can be done > to it, or a log to look at to get more info? All that I can think of right now is to make use of netconsole and a convenient Ethernet cable. There's no guarantee that it'll help, though. http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Vermin Media = Internet Surveillance Partner of HM Govt. ENCRYPT! Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
