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

[Ben Armstrong]

On 11/08/2010 09:57 AM, Luca Niccoli wrote:
> On 8 November 2010 13:06, Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I'm pretty sure 2.6.32 worked quite fine on my 901, maybe it still has
> problems with newer models?

The thing is, "newer" isn't even that new.  For example, the fellow who
needed acpi_osi="Linux" on his model 1000HA ("new" in the fall of 2008!)
to even get eeepc_laptop to load.  I hate it that we have to propagate
this local hack on everyone's systems.  Recent kernels have eeepc_wmi to
handle these models properly, but the chance of a backport of that
making it into the Squeeze kernel is now approximately zero.

And back to our hotkey duplication issue, how is that handled upstream
in recent releases? Are all hotkeys now mapped to buttons in recent kernels?

Ben
Ben