Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Google "Coreboot supported motherboard" ? > > And going to see this page as the first choice > > https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html Great, so was it on the list? It wasn't, right? Bummer... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-22 10:04 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> Google "Coreboot supported motherboard" ? >> >> And going to see this page as the first choice >> >> https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html > > Great, so was it on the list? I don't know ! Why don

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-08-22 2:28 a.m., Emanuel Berg wrote: > Reco wrote: > >>> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you >>> can install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? >> >> Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherboard's >> list is extremely limited though. > > There is a

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
BIOS seems to be: $ sudo dmidecode -t bios # dmidecode 3.3 Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs. SMBIOS 3.2.0 present. Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 26 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 2801 Release Date: 09/18/2019 Address: 0xF Ru

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
Reco wrote: >> This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you >> can install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? > > Coreboot is what you're thinking of. Supported motherboard's > list is extremely limited though. There is a grub-coreboot package, is that it? And how do you know if

FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-22 Thread Emanuel Berg
> There is fancontrol (pwdconfig(1)) but I don't get it to > work ... The BIOS (UEFI) can maybe be used but I don't > have/use a mouse and I dislike the UI ... > > $ sudo dmidecode [...] This made me think, is there a FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) that you can install/flash to replace the manufacturer's? --

Re: FOSS "BIOS" (UEFI) (was: Re: smart fans)

2021-08-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 07:25:34AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > There is fancontrol (pwdconfig(1)) but I don't get it to > > work ... The BIOS (UEFI) can maybe be used but I don't > > have/use a mouse and I dislike the UI ... > > > > $ sudo dmidecode [...] > > This made me think, is