Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:03:33 +0000 | From | Darren Salt <> | Subject | Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4) |
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I demand that Matthew Garrett may or may not have written...
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on >> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that >> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny. >> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.
> Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally the > problem here is distributions using broken options rather than fixing the > problem properly in the first place.
Not so much "broken options" as "using the ony available workaround at the time", I think. I have no idea what action other than using this option was taken.
>>> BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, >>> and I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it. >> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.
> You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my > recollection.
I can't say that I've noticed any problems.
> There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this somewhere.
This one, I think: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243
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