I guess you have to know how to talk to them, a lot of the time they will say they don't support Linux/BSD/BeOS etc, that is when you talk their language, saying you know it is a hardware issue via running their tools, and having a report from those tools showing the error usually seals the deal, at worst you swap the harddrive back to their windows/cutdown linux install and send it back for them to see it is not the os.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected] > wrote: > Morgan Storey wrote: > >> what about the one in Ubuntu 104535... >> Beside the point no vendor is going to know about minor bugs that may kill >> their hardware. >> > > But they are likely to attribute any fault to the alternate operating > system. > > Though having said that, I did have to take my current 2004 laptop into a > service centre when it wouldn't boot after I had loaded Knoppix. I did this > with > some treppidation ready to reinstall XP if I needed to. However, when I > spoke to > the Tech, he showed me shrink wrapped Xandros boxes and took a copy of my > Knoppix Disk :-). > > He asked me to leave the computer with him, and come back in a > couple of days. I think the problem was just a flat battery. Which brings > me > back to the power management and other bits of hardware not working - > sorry, I > am not going to get involved in recompiling Kernels. > > Haven't had any problems since, but see "Switch to Linux" (Late 2003) > <http://www.ramin.com.au/linux/linux-log1.html> > > >> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 13:48 +1000, Morgan Storey wrote: >>> >>>> I don't believe that manufacturers can claim that the warranty has been >>>> voided by simply installing a different operating system. >>>> >>> Kernel bug #11382, anyone? (i.e. e1000e on Linux 2.6.27-rc1) >>> >>> > > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > http://www.ramin.com.au > Phone: (+61)0414 869202 > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
