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

[Kasper Loopstra]

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I would like to report that while I've had a lot of trouble with my
4GB SDHC card as a separate FAT partition, after a recent (2 weeks
ago) reinstall it works fine. Lenny is installed to the internal SSD,
but I use the media card for my home folder and some other data, and
it works fine. There obviously is something wrong if it fails on a lot
of devices (judging by the reports on the list), but it does work
occasionally.

Kasper Loopstra

Richard Minutillo wrote:
> 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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