[Debian-eeepc-devel] I've been having trouble booting wheezy on my ASUS 1000HE.

[Hendrik Boom]

It was the first EEEPC as far as I know that had conpletely Linux-
compatible hardware, but it's not se happy now.  I still use wheezy, but 
I can't boot with a current kernel.

I'm using 3.0.0-1-686-pae and none of the more recent stock Debian wheezy 
kernels seem to work.  Every now and then the my routine aptitude safe-
upgrade gives me a new kernel, but the new ones always fail.

What happens with the new kernel is that it boots, but at the end of the 
boot sequence, it gives me a login screen that invites me to enter my 
user name.  The screen seems subtly malformed -- it looks as if it has 
been stretched horizontally, and the little wheel that marks the mouse 
position is an ellipse.  But the real problem comes when I actually try 
to log in.  It is totally unresponsive to the keyboard and the mouse.  
Luckily the power switch on the keyboard still works, or I would have to 
wait for the battery to run down to shut the machine off so I could 
reboot.

I haven't been able to identify what particular piece of software is 
producing this login screen.  It looks different from what I'm used to.  

None of this happens when I use the older 3.0.0-1-686-pae keernel.  I can 
use several display managers, and a variety of desktop/window managers 
with no particular problem.  (How does one go about identifying which 
display manager I'm using, anyway?  I think I'm now using gdm, and have 
used kdm successfully, but I'm not sure.)

But kernels  3.1.0-1-686-pae, 3.2.0-1-686-pae, and 3.2.0-2-686-pae all 
fail and give me this strange login screen.

-- hendrik