Looks like the same as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611750 It also affected my netbook, not an eeepc, but using intel i915 also. Workaround: downgrade kernel to linux-image-2.6.32-5-686_2.6.32-29_i386 You can find it here: http://snapshot.debian.org -- Paolo