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Hello, and welcome to my website. This is a repository to what I have learned over the years, and to the projects I have spent my time learning.

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Oct 10, 2008: One problem that the 2.6.26 linux kernel had, was that it was reporting a GPE Storm on ACPI events. This was a feature added to the kernel, so that laptop's that have a poor acpi key implementation can fall back to polled mode. This unfortunately causes the side effect of only polling once every second for acpi key presses (such as volume controls). The status of this problem is being tracked at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724. Comment #120 provides a cleaner implementation of the GPE Detection, that seems to work better with the EeePC. I am unable to test this at this time (alas, poor dead poweradapter), but this looks like the solution everyone was waiting for. Upstream as of 2.6.27. acpi-gpestorm-update.patch.
Oct 10, 2008: Now that 2.6.27 is out, it's time I update my EeePC page. Most of the fixes, and external drivers have been committed upstream (uvcvideo, eeepc-laptop, and ath5k), but I currently have a ill EeePC (alas, poor power adapter). I may be looking into getting the fastboot work in 2.6.27 (you can see a read on the work done for this at lwn.net/Articles/299591/). Tis good times ahead for the EeePC
Oct 10, 2008: [EEE] Updated the grub2 port of 915resolution to include support for the 945GME chipset used on the EeePC 1000. Thanks to Scot Doyle for this update. (Untested by me, but looks sane)
May 29, 2008: [EEE] Updated the kernel config file to work around a bug in the eee.ko module.
May 19, 2008: [EEE] Added a patch that will increase the speed of the drive, Obtained from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/25/18. Updated the kernel to 2.6.25.4.
May 08, 2008: [EEE] Removed link to asus_acpi_eee.patch.bz2 as a different variation has been merged upstream.
May 05, 2008: [EEE] Removed link to madwifi 3365 snapshop, and replaced with a prepatched tarball. This was done as the snapshots are no longer provided. Reworded introduction.
Apr 21, 2008: [EEE] Added an ACPID section that documents how to configure hotkeys
Apr 20, 2008: [EEE] Updated the kernel section to use 2.6.25. Removed realtime as there is currently no patch for 2.6.25 located at www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/. Added kernel parameters. Added power reduction optimizations. Added boot booster information. Updated grub2 915resolution patch to work with boot booster.