[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-live prerelease image

[Frédéric Boiteux]

Le Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:33:41 -0400,
Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> a écrit :

> If people are available to do the job today or tomorrow, I need
> testers for a prerelease image of eeepc-live 1.0~b3.  If these tests
> go well, my next build will become 1.0~b3.  I would like to have this
> wrapped up in the next couple of days.
> 
> …
> 
> Please note your model# and include the md5sum of the image you
> tested. I'm particularly interested to hear from those with very
> recent or unusual model#s, e.g. 1005HA, 1101HA, 701SD, but also the
> common older models: 901, 900, 4G, etc.

	Hello,

I've tested this eeepc-live image (md5sum =
4f7f5960acc2080599d198172d83bfa9) on different netbooks here ; as
I didn't have a blank USB drive, I extracted the filesystem, linux and
initrd images from binary.img, and boot them from a Grub menu, with
following cmd line :
"noautologin union=aufs locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 keyb=fr klayout=fr
kvariant=bepo timezone=Europe/Paris live-media-path=boot/eeepc-live"
(I'm french, using  a dvorak-like "bépo" keyboard layout)


1/ on an Asus Eeepc 701 (first models) :

all works as intended, excepted 2 points :

- my setup to have a french Bépo keyboard didn't work (on any tested
system), but perhaps it depends on live-helper version you used to build
your system

- when plugging an external monitor, some resolutions didn't work
(image unstable and unreadable), ones with a 60 Hz rate, whereas 75 Hz
ones worked (but it's lower resolutions).


2/ on an Asus Eeepc 1002HA :

[note that on this model, I have to type 'F2', then 'Esc' keys to get
BIOS boot menu. I didn't have wireless AP when doing this test.]

- when resuming from suspend, I get a OSD message telling that SHE is
unavailable. When digging a bit more, I found that the eeepc-laptop
module isn't loaded, and trying to load it explicitely with modprobe
give an error message, as Juha !

- the sound keys don't do anything, as the blank-screen and
video-toggle Fn keys, but the brightness worked (and acpi events are
detected). As eeepc-laptop module isn't loaded, this could explain why
such Fn keys aren't detected…


3/ on a Samsung NC10 (not a Eeepc but a netbook) :

- when resuming from suspend, the screen remains black and system is
unresponsive (even with Alt-SysRq- magic keys).

- the brightness and video toggle keys doesn't have any impact on the
screen, but seems detected by acpid -> perhaps an acpi-support update
is required, but it's out of scope of your eeepc live system.

Note that the same external monitor which causes problems with Eeepc 701
worked well with this netbook.


	Fred.