An upgrade of the bios (AMI) from version 1.01 to version 1.11 solved the problem. Thanks for your help.
--Dave On 2/22/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently switched my uniwill 245II0 laptop from Ubuntu to Debian > Sarge with the 2.6.8 kernel. Upon doing so my backlight stopped > comimg on after a lid event. See previous thread for everything I > tried (from vbetool and vbe_post to different kernels and acpi > scripts). > > I finally made a little progress by installing the 2.4.27 kernel. > Looking at the .config file I found that it disabled ACPI by default. > Without ACPI the lid button caused the system to go into some type of > suspend. I'd prefer the flexibility of acpi but am willing to forgoe > it for the time being. Problem is removing acpi from the kernel > (either 2.4.27 which has it off by default or 2.6.8 by passing > acpi=off) causes me to loose my synaptics mouse and atheros card > functionality. > > The mouse seems to work fine with gpm but I haven't been able to get > it to function in X even with trying various input devices and > protocols. I've also tried turning off gpm before starting X. When > using the synaptics driver X complains about the evdev modules being > missing (atleast with the 2.4 kernel). > > The madwifi drivers load and iwconfig sees the interface but it > doesn't get any signal. There is a switch that turns off the radio > and a led that normally reflects the state of the switch. Without > ACPI that led remains off regardless of the switch state and it would > appear that the radio does remain off. > > > I know this e-mail is not quite a good example of ESR's smart > questions, but this problem is driving me up the wall. I'm beginning > to have a hard time approaching it rationally. I'd just install > ubuntu again if I thought it would help. However, the live cd > produces the same behavior as debian does with acpi enabled. > > ANY suggestions greatly appreciated. I'm starting to wonder if there > isn't a hardware problem instead of a software configuration issue. > > Thanks in advance. > > --Dave >
