On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:44 PM, siddharth srivastava <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Just sharing a small incident of influence of M$ on hardware. > I have been suffering with overheating of my Dell laptop for about over a > month. It occurs(yeah still occurs) only with linux and not with windose. > Earlier I thought it was a kernel issue but now I have figured out that > the problem looks like that the acpi bios seems to be compiled with m$ > compiler, though iasl for linux only reports certain optimizations only but > a deep insight into dsdt.dsl indicates this or at least have m$ influence > over it heavily. > It seems that manufacturers are forced to comply by m$ otherwise they'll > have to pay the "microsoft tax" in terms of getting blacklisted for > distributing windose or create some other problems for them (I am not much > aware of businees ethics :D ) > Some findings and discussions have lead to this conclusion that some > manufacturers have been duped into allowing there acpi code to be compiled > by m$ compiler > -- > Siddharth Srivastava > > When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will > be time for you to leave. >
Every geek knows about this problem. Hence there are various guides available on the internet to buy pcs, laptops, specially instructing about careful inspection of hardware if you plan to install linux. -- Regards, Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nilesh.gr Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgr Website: http://www.itech7.com VPS Hosting: http://www.itech7.com/a/vps -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
