Uwe Dippel wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:50:07 +0200, Kent West wrote:
After several attempts to convince Dell the problem was with their
hardware (firmware), and not with me running unsupported OSes, they sent
me a beta version of a BIOS which fixed my problem.
I'm quite disappointed by
Uwe Dippel writes:
> This reminds me of the issue 'fair use'. I don't buy a PC that works with
> XP only; but when I buy one, I buy a piece of hardware that is supposed
> to work with x86-software. Any x86-software.
I think the term you want here is 'merchantability'.
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John Hasler
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:50:07 +0200, Kent West wrote:
> After several attempts to convince Dell the problem was with their
> hardware (firmware), and not with me running unsupported OSes, they sent
> me a beta version of a BIOS which fixed my problem.
>
> Now I read this posting of yours, and I
Uwe Dippel wrote:
Serious Warning - Possible Bug in BIOS update !
A06 will not support any UNIX-/ LINUX-GUI (at least on this machine).
I tried Debian-Linux ('testing'); and tried OpenBSD 3.5 (multi-boot).
Both will inevitably fail with a light yellow screen and an unresponsive keyboard
(no Ctrl-Al
Serious Warning - Possible Bug in BIOS update !
A06 will not support any UNIX-/ LINUX-GUI (at least on this machine).
I tried Debian-Linux ('testing'); and tried OpenBSD 3.5 (multi-boot).
Both will inevitably fail with a light yellow screen and an unresponsive keyboard
(no Ctrl-Alt-Del; neither C
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