I am sooooo pissed after reading that HP has such a huge success with it's Linux Laptop.
That's not because I'm a Windows nut or I don't like HP or stuff, it's because I own a HP Laptop (pavilion ze4360) that is simply not usable under Linux! And I'm not talking about any "nice to have" features like suspend-to-disk or whatever, but about 20min uptime when running on battery.
They apparently f*cked up the ACPI implementation in the BIOS really bad, so under Linux speedstepping is unsupported. No matter what I did and tried, I had a Laptop that was running at a constant ~1800MHz. Of course I can't expect any help from HP support since the guys answering my inquiries don't quite understand the problem ("But if you use that and that setting in Windows XP your battery _does_ last longer").
How come HP produces a wonderful Linux Laptop and at the same time makes another one completely unusable for people who want to run Linux?
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I am sooooo pissed after reading that HP has such a huge success with it's Linux Laptop.
That's not because I'm a Windows nut or I don't like HP or stuff, it's because I own a HP Laptop (pavilion ze4360) that is simply not usable under Linux! And I'm not talking about any "nice to have" features like suspend-to-disk or whatever, but about 20min uptime when running on battery.
They apparently f*cked up the ACPI implementation in the BIOS really bad, so under Linux speedstepping is unsupported. No matter what I did and tried, I had a Laptop that was running at a constant ~1800MHz. Of course I can't expect any help from HP support since the guys answering my inquiries don't quite understand the problem ("But if you use that and that setting in Windows XP your battery _does_ last longer").
How come HP produces a wonderful Linux Laptop and at the same time makes another one completely unusable for people who want to run Linux?