[Debian-eeepc-devel] Help cleanup wiki: standard install, elantech, synaptics, etc.

[Richard Minutillo]

Ben Armstrong wrote about cleaning up the WIki. Maybe it's also time to cleanup the misinformation about the internal SD card reader in some EeePC mmodels like my 701 4G.

There are only two true facts that I can state about the card reader in my 4G: (1) 'Lenny' consistently fails to access SDHC cards in the internal reader. (2) No other operating system, including Debian variants, that I have tried have any difficulty with SDHC cards or any other cards of whatever size that I've tried in the internal reader. 

So if all other software works with the hardware, it's a safe bet that Lenny's unique problems are related to some flaw in the software which no one seems to be working on, since the Wiki and other sources consider it to be a hardware problem.

Case in point: I successfully installed Ubuntu 7.04 onto a 4 Gig SDHC card in the internal reader in my 4G, and successfuly booted off that card for many weeks. I also used other SD and SDHC cards in the same reader using the native Xandros with no issues whatsoever. The debian eeepc installer, however, consistently failed to recognize or write to that card, usually firing off an error like:

"sense: unrecovered 
read error" and/or "I/O error /dev/sdc sector 7812088"

Now I have use the same installer to install Lenny on the internal SSHD, and the installed system still fails to deal with SDHC cards in the internal slot, yet It can easily deal with a new plain 8Gig non SDHC card in the same slot.

So someone should clean up the references to the internal SD reader for the 701 series on the Wiki, someone should write a more accurate warning about trying to install to SDHC, and most importantly, someone should figure out what's broken in Lenny and fix it. 

Richard Minutillo



      
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