Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-26 Thread David Riley
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > > To Maintainer: > PCI SUBSYSTEM > P: Martin Mares > M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S: Supported > > This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate > subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-26 Thread David Riley
Marvin Stodolsky wrote: To Maintainer: PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious.

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Jacques > Can you check what does Linux 2.4.0-test behave, please? Are you comfortable compiling kernels? If not I'll compile one for you for the test. Currently I'm happily under 2.4.0-test 12: lsmod: Module Size Used by ppp_deflate39164 1 (autoclean)

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate > subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious. > > Briefly, documented below is the fact/complications that some PC BIOS > chips are now coming with a default Microsoft setting, which makes

BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
To Maintainer: PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious. Briefly, documented below is the

BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
To Maintainer: PCI SUBSYSTEM P: Martin Mares M: [EMAIL PROTECTED] L: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S: Supported This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious. Briefly, documented below is the

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! This alert should probably be forwarded to Others, but appropriate subTask persons in the kernel-source Maintainers list were not obvious. Briefly, documented below is the fact/complications that some PC BIOS chips are now coming with a default Microsoft setting, which makes them

Re: BIOS problem, pro Microsoft, anti other OS

2000-12-25 Thread Marvin Stodolsky
Jacques Can you check what does Linux 2.4.0-testlatest behave, please? Are you comfortable compiling kernels? If not I'll compile one for you for the test. Currently I'm happily under 2.4.0-test 12: lsmod: Module Size Used by ppp_deflate39164 1 (autoclean)