Martin,
Thanks for the suggestion. I will run lsmod.
After sleeping on it, I think the conflicting driver must
be related to the backlighting on the display, not the graphics processor. The
Acer and Asus have the same
graphics hardware, but the displays are different.
Andy
On Dec 1, 2010, at
Martin,
Looking at some Fedora sites, I see where there are many post of problems with
the Eee PC
and backlighting. Based on what I read, I decided to update the BIOS, and
although it didn't fix the
problem completely, the screen now has about 10% brightness, so I can actually
read it if the
Martin,
Success...
I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst file so that the kernel line is now
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 ro
root=UUID=58ef33d6-bd02-4a2c-830b-2515ff9368ed rhgb quiet acpi_osi=Linux
acpi_backlight=vendor
On the first reboot, the boot process paused for about
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote:
Martin,
Success...
Glad to hear!
You may want to consider adding this to future server releases, assuming that
it doesn't
cause problems on other platforms.
When I get some time to work on the next release, we
I have installed XS 0.6 on an ASUS 1005PEB Eee PC. The server is running fine
except that the screen went dark at server start-up right after the starting
udev was displayed on the screen. My screen stays dark and can only be reset
by restoring the default bios settings. Then it gets set dark
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed XS 0.6 on an ASUS 1005PEB Eee PC. The server is running fine
except that the screen went dark at server start-up right after the starting
udev was displayed on the screen. My screen stays dark and can
Martin,
Removing the first line from the 80-drivers.rules keeps the screen from going
dark, but as best I can tell, it also keeps most of the drivers from being
installed. For instance, the ethernet ports are not found when the line is
omitted. The line is:
DRIVER!=?*,
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Andra DuPont andradup...@gmail.com wrote:
So apparently one of the drivers that is installed is conflicting with the
screen brightness.
Your analysis seems 100% correct.
I'd suggest -
- run lsmod, it'll tell you what modules are being loaded - one of
them
