[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#559578: eeepc-acpi-scripts: EeePC 701 freezes with garbled screen while booting

[Ben Armstrong]

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:24:04 +0000
Darren Salt <linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I demand that Axel Beckert may or may not have written...
> > It does not happen if I:
> > * unplug the power supply (not very usable).
> [snip]
> > It does happen:
> [snip kernel-independent]
> > * as soon as I plug in the power supply (in case I had it unplugged on
> >   startup) the system freezes and garbles the screen, also if running
> >   under X.
> 
> Interesting. That'd be when it switches, or tries to switch, to high-speed
> mode. I wonder if this could be BIOS-related; listing both known-good and
> known-bad BIOS revisions may be useful since we can then blacklist (or
> whitelist?) and encourage upgrades, or possibly downgrades, where
> appropriate.

As a workaround, of course, you could just set
in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts to not switch modes on AC.

Ben