On Sat 2008-10-11 15:50:21, Alan Jenkins wrote: > Robert Goldner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am a happy user of an asus eeepc 701 with an self-made kernel 2.6.27. > > Its working quite good, but there is one patch needed to avoid problems > > related to ACPI and Hotkeys. > > After using a few hotkeys there comes a message in syslog like: > > ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE > > and no hotkey event is recognized any more. This is quite bad on a nettop. > > Hi, I reported the original bug. It is a regression, though the issue > has been present for a few kernel versions now. > > I recommend that you avoid reproducing the problem. I now have to add > "noapic" to the boot options on my EeePC, otherwise it randomly hangs / > reboots when I press hotkeys - I think it damaged the hardware. I guess your hw went bad for some other reason. Restore original system and if it is still broken, RMA? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
