It was the first EEEPC as far as I know that had conpletely Linux- compatible hardware, but it's not se happy now. I still use wheezy, but I can't boot with a current kernel.
I'm using 3.0.0-1-686-pae and none of the more recent stock Debian wheezy kernels seem to work. Every now and then the my routine aptitude safe- upgrade gives me a new kernel, but the new ones always fail. What happens with the new kernel is that it boots, but at the end of the boot sequence, it gives me a login screen that invites me to enter my user name. The screen seems subtly malformed -- it looks as if it has been stretched horizontally, and the little wheel that marks the mouse position is an ellipse. But the real problem comes when I actually try to log in. It is totally unresponsive to the keyboard and the mouse. Luckily the power switch on the keyboard still works, or I would have to wait for the battery to run down to shut the machine off so I could reboot. I haven't been able to identify what particular piece of software is producing this login screen. It looks different from what I'm used to. None of this happens when I use the older 3.0.0-1-686-pae keernel. I can use several display managers, and a variety of desktop/window managers with no particular problem. (How does one go about identifying which display manager I'm using, anyway? I think I'm now using gdm, and have used kdm successfully, but I'm not sure.) But kernels 3.1.0-1-686-pae, 3.2.0-1-686-pae, and 3.2.0-2-686-pae all fail and give me this strange login screen. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
