[Debian-eeepc-devel] Arbitrarily hangs at bootup at Setting?the system clock.

[Bruno Costacurta]

On Friday 29 August 2008 10:59:44 Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Bruno Costacurta, Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:42:39AM +0200 |=-
>
> > On Thursday 28 August 2008 23:13:14 Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > > -=| Paul Menzel, Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:43:44PM +0200 |=-
> > >
> > > > the last five I used my Eee PC 701 4G more than before. Arbitrarily
> > > > in 10 % of booting the Eee PC it hangs at bootup right after
> > > >
> > > >         Setting the system clock.
> > > >
> > > > is displayed.
> > > >
> > > > I am using Linux 2.6.26 and Debian Sid. 2.6.26-1-686 was the kernel I
> > > > installed when I installed Debian. BIOS version is 0801 according to
> > > > the BIOS menu and
> > >
> > > Same here on 701 with BIOS 1101. kernel 2.6.25-2
> > > Same on 901 BIOS 1101, kernel 2.6.27-rc4
> > >
> > > It happens only from time to time, but happens.
> >
> > I resolved this problem following instructions at :
> >
> > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Troubleshooting
> >
> > I have a 900 model with kernel 2.6.25-2-686. Hope it helps for you too.
>
> which instructions exactly? If you mean blacklisting rtc, I have it.
> Since then, lockups occure more seldom.

Indeed, I followed instructions as indicated on DebianEeePC site related to 
blacklist rtc and module genrtc setups.
I can confirm it works perfectly on my 900.