From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755157AbYIOPCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:02:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753219AbYIOPBw (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:52 -0400 Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net ([212.159.14.146]:59556 "EHLO ptb-relay02.plus.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753537AbYIOPBv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:51 -0400 Message-ID: <48CE78F0.9050805@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:02:08 +0100 From: Sitsofe Wheeler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel To: Alan Jenkins CC: linux-kernel , Corentin Chary , acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Turning off camera also kills card reader on EeePC 900 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Plusnet-Relay: bac6dce1c1f020e022b593e8c4b3aeff Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Jenkins wrote: > Ok. So the platform driver settings do match those in the BIOS. My > guess would be the platform driver is fine and the BIOS screws up. I was afraid you were going to say that. > The "HC died" message is interesting. Sounds like the controller for > these two USB devices stops working. Maybe try unloading and reloading > the ehci module? I don't think I can help any more though. I compiled the kernel without module support so unless there's some sysfs trick that can be done... > - Are any BIOS upgrades available? None of them mention this problem, > but the descriptions often miss out details. [1][2] For some reason I thought I had once seen an 804 BIOS but I only see 802 on the EeePC 900 page (link below) and the even older 704 BIOS on ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePC/EeePC900/ . > - It might be necessary to compare with the pre-installed OS > - Is the pre-installed kernel any better (files might be under > /proc/acpi/asus instead)? I guess you might not have the time or > resources to test that though. The Xandros 2.6.21.4-eeepc install has the following files in /proc/acpi/asus/ brn camera cardr cpufv disp hdps init type wlan I have no idea what cpufv, disp, hdps, init or type are. Doing echo 1 > camera && echo 0 > camera under this setup does NOT disappear the SD card. Additionally brn seems to really represent the current LCD brightness (whereas it does not on a stock kernel and seems to always be set to -19) and the hotkeys (e.g. for brightness) seem to respond far more quickly than the stock kernel too. > - The source code is... a 2Gb+ rar file someone would have to download > and pick apart. 2.6Gbytes of multipart RAR. Joy. > [1] Asus downloads This link seems to be for the 701 only. Does anyone know if the archives on http://support.asus.com/download/download_item_4.aspx?product=20&model=Eee%20PC%20900/Linux&SLanguage=en-us&os=5 (release dates appear to be 5th September 2008) are actually any different? (A brief aside. If you are a company doing seeking to do a source release of a Linux distribution, it might be a good idea to go for typical Unix formats. It is easier for folks if you package things as tar.bz2 or tar.gz files or even .zip rather than going for .rar . Additionally it is helpful if you split the just the kernel into an archive of its own). -- Sitsofe