Eee PC ACPI Utilities 1.1 series released

As many of you have already seen, on Monday I released Eee PC ACPI Utilities 1.1 series as stable including the newer Eee PC Tray utility and the netbook kernel module.

This new release offers many new features including support for compressed 1024x768 for 9 and 10" netbooks as well as a compressed 800x600 mode for netbooks with 7" screens.

The new "Insane" overclock mode isn't supported at all at this time on any of the Eee PCs that don't expose the SMBus including the Eee PC 1000HE and most newer devices.

Some Eee users have reported issues with the new bus control system, mostly those with 900 series running more than 1GB of memory. Good news though, you no longer need to disable scaling, just configure BUS_MODE="SHE" and remove the older DONOTSCALE_FSB key from your .local file.
In any case where you experience lockups when booting without power connected, or whenever you unplug / plug the AC connection, switch to SHE mode.

With this upgrade, I strongly recommend removing the .local file that you previously used with the 1.0 series *IF* you copied the template and edited it. With this version and going forward, I recommend that you only add the changes to the .local file rather than copying the whole file and editing it.

There have been some minor issues being reported with the upgrade; so far I've seen about 1700 installations this week and the #1 issues are (2 users reporting) WIFI not resuming, (2 users reporting) screen scrambling when changing modes or rotating the screen, and (2 users reporting) the upgrade manager is not allowing it to be installed because of the new dependency. To upgrade use Synaptic, or 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. Please be aware that the first two issues are not issues with Eee PC ACPI, but rather they are issues with Jauntys poor Intel drivers, and kernels earlier than 2.6.30. The Eeebuntu team has worked extensively to resolve these issues for our users, and the fixes linked [ HERE ] are directly compatible with Ubuntu Jaunty as well. If you are experiencing issues with WIFI control or with Screen scrambling please follow the instructions in the linked article to resolve your issues before reporting problems to help reduce the effort of supporting you during the upgrade to the new release. I've started updating the WIKI to reflect this new release, however please be patient as all of the changes are not yet complete.

Go get [ Eee PC Utilities ]

Note: Eee PC Utilities have been superceded by Jupiter for Eeebuntu and Fedora.  More information [ HERE ]