[Debian-eeepc-devel] How to deal with the freeze?

[Ben Armstrong]

On 11/08/2010 06:43 AM, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> On 7 November 2010 18:53, Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> 
>> However, when I try binding this to the camera handler, it fails to
>> work.  Probably has to do with this:
>>
>> $ sudo cat /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera
>> cat: /sys/devices/platform/eeepc/camera: No such device
> 
> This looks like a kernel problem.
> Has camera toggling ever been working on that netbook?
> (As a side note, that function has been more or less deprecated by
> kernel devels in favor of USB autosuspend)

I never tested it, no. And imho, not worth worrying about at this point.
 I just found it interesting.

It's somewhat discouraging that with Squeeze right around the corner,
2.6.32 is not in better shape for Eee PCs, though.  The acpi_osi hack is
bad enough without all of these other little issues.

Ben