[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts update & breakage

[Ben Armstrong]

On 04/20/11 15:38, Andre Majorel wrote:
> Yes, kernel upgrade from 2.6.32-5 to linux-image-2.6.38-2-686
> version 2.6.38-3.
> 
> On 2011-04-20 12:41 -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
>> So do the first and third of these. Is 'eeepc_laptop' loaded (check
>> lsmod)?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> # modprobe eeepc_laptop
> FATAL: Error inserting eeepc_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.38-2-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.ko): No such device
> 
> Is that bad ? :->

You need eeepc_wmi with that kernel. It should be automatically loaded
except ...

>> What model do you have? What kernel?
> 
> 1001HA.

If you previously used the acpi_osi="Linux" workaround to load
eeepc_laptop with 2.6.32, you now need to remove that workaround, or
else eeepc_wmi will not load and hotkeys, etc. will not work.

Ben