Greetings, 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. >
Welcome to reality!!!. Well just in case, one may want to check out linux supporting laptops. Lenovo comes to mind... and many more.. Works fine with ubuntu 10.04 (I suppose) but mo idea about robust ones like RHEL/CentOS etc. Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
