I have reason to believe that this issue is now resolved for me with
Linux 3.8.0-31, which appears to be the healthiest kernel so far without
resorting to trying the mainline kernel.
After already a number of boot-ups, I'm pleased to say that I've not
suffered from any black screen of death
This bug appears to have been resolved for me at least with kernel
v3.8.0-31.
Battery is now showing 100% when fully charged.
Kind regards and thanks
Christopher
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Hmmm
Today I tried booting up again and it went back to the black screen of
death with nothing more than a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
I shut down, and booted it up again and it got the login screen. The
behaviour seems random.
So, to conclude, it seems that the problem is not
Public bug reported:
Following a BIOS update from 215 to 219 for my Asus UX31A, battery % now
reports as being on 84% when it should read 100% (as it does in Windows
8). This value will remain permanently on 84% and will never reach 100%
when plugged into the mains. The little light on the power
Sigh ... it seems that the issue remains even when booting up using the
previous kernel version.
Problem is that if I approach Asus about this, then they will simply
reply with sorry, we don't support linux, ...Asus recommends Windows
8. :-( Like hell I'll use Windows 8!
I updated the BIOS in an
Christopher,
I have just updated the BIOS to version 219 and am pleased to say that I
have now been able to boot into the latest kernel 3.8.0-29.
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
Output:
UX31A.219
06/14/2013
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on
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