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MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
Noodlenose notes a thread up on the Ubuntu forums, where a user is questioning the practices of hardware manufacturer Foxconn. The user describes how his new Foxconn motherboard caused his Linux install to freeze and fire off weird kernel errors. He disassembles the BIOS and concludes that a faulty DSDT table is responsible for the errors. Even though the user makes Foxconn aware of the problem, they refuse to correct it, as 'it doesn't support Linux' and is only 'Microsoft certified.' The user speculates darkly on Foxconn's motives. Read the forum, read the code, and come to your own conclusions. "I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here, I'll tell you what I did find. They have several different tables, a group for Windows XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board's ACPI implementation.' The worst part is Foxconn's insistence that the product is ACPI compliant because their tables passed to Windows work, and that Microsoft gave the the magic WHQL certification."
I see you bought one of these defective motherboards. What do you expect from a company with "con" in the name, honesty? It's Foxconn for krissake!
There's a construction company here in illinois, I see their trucks all the time; Conmstrux. "Con's trucks". I wouldn't have someone like that build an outhouse, but as with Foxconn it is a kind of truth in advertising.
To a Welshman or a Scotsman would it sound like "Fucks Con?" I hope these boards are sold in Britian, where they have REAL false advertising laws, unlike here in the US. They need to be slapped down hard for these shenannigans.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Nooooo the real solution is the US military one ;)
Don't ask, don't tell!
Why should the bios care what OS is running in the first place!
Demand your a-sexual MOBO today!
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