On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on > Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that > workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny. > > Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem. Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally the problem here is distributions using broken options rather than fixing the problem properly in the first place. > > BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, and > > I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it. > > BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression. You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my recollection. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this somewhere. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
