[Debian-eeepc-devel] debian on eeepc 1201N

[Darren Salt]

I demand that giggzounet may or may not have written...

> I'm new on this list. I have now an eeepc 1201N and i'm trying to install
> debian on it...So I choose debian stable (lenny) with backports and few
> unstable packages. this eeepc ist very new, so it's normal...it doesn't
> work out of the box ;) So a few questions :

> - I can't code anything, but I can test patches and packages. So is it the
> right place on this list to contribute to the support for this eeepc ?

I would expect so. :-)

> - the 1201N has an atom 330 processor. The frequency scaling doesn't work
> with all the AMD64 kernels I have tested [...] is it possible to scale the
> frequency on the atom 330 ?

No.

> - the hotkeys don't work with all the AMD64 kernels I have tested (2.6.26
> (lenny), 2.6.30 (backports), 2.6.32 (unstable)).

Test with acpi_listen or, preferably, with acpid in verbose debug mode.

> And with the last one 2.6.32 the eeepc_laptop module doen't want to
> "modprobe".

Booting with acpi_osi="Linux" may help.

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