On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243 If I understand things correctly, this was already the case before, but the kernel boot was slower, so we could'nt see that. If it's not the case, someone with a 901 should try bisecting (I only have a 701). -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net -- 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
