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:Foxconn Deliberately Sabotaging Their BIOS to Destroy Linux ACPI
Foxconn Deliberately Sabotaging Their BIOS to Destroy Linux ACPI
Jul 25, 2008, 15 :00 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (9258 reads)

(Other stories by TheAlmightyCthulhu)

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX.

"The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation, causing weird kernel errors, strange system freezing, no suspend or hibernate, and other problems, using my modifications below, I've gotten it down to just crashing on the next reboot after having suspended..."

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Here is the link for EU consumer anti-tr ...   If anyone wants to make an anti-trust complaint...   
SM
Jul 25, 2008, 15:41:44
 
Don't claim malice if the problem ca ...   Perhaps not deliberate   
Pieter Van Nuffel
Jul 25, 2008, 16:29:01
 
Gosh, when end users come to me and say, ...   Who turns down Free help and sales?   
hike
Jul 25, 2008, 16:43:35
 
There should be an investigation to dete ...   Some reasons for antitrust investigation   
Jose_X
Jul 25, 2008, 16:56:24
 
 http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowacon ...   Blast from the past   
Roy Schestowitz
Jul 25, 2008, 17:27:35
 
The point is that according to the artic ...   Re: Perhaps not deliberate - It does look delibera   
SM
Jul 25, 2008, 18:19:59
 
Hmm....I don't kow but...Maybe it wo ...   Re: Perhaps not deliberate - It does look delibera   
john Kloosterman
Jul 25, 2008, 18:57:12
 
Microsoft Lies Cheats & Steals!Foxconn a ...   I Say Again!   
CD Baric
Jul 25, 2008, 19:11:40
 
 Gosh, when end users come to me and say ...   Re: Who turns down Free help and sales?   
jp
Jul 26, 2008, 01:19:22
 
 http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowacon ...   Re: Blast from the past   
jp
Jul 26, 2008, 01:28:36
 
When I first saw "Blast from the Past" I ...   Re: blast from the past   
Joe User
Jul 26, 2008, 09:19:50
 
the IOWA case are full of smoking guns.L ...   Those MS email revelations by ...   
GreyGeek
Jul 26, 2008, 23:24:10
 
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