Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Jan 1999 01:33:43 -0500 | From | brent verner <> | Subject | Re: GPF + Oops in 2.2.0-pre4 |
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i'd like to say that i'm a happy owner of an epox motherboard. i've never had a problem with mine, but i saw at their site where they had a BIOS update that fixed some shutdown problem with Linux. *some* HW companies are doing the smart thing...
brent
Thomas Molina wrote: > > The really frustrating part of all this is that the BIOS makers and > motherboard manufacturers seem to be non-responsive on this issue. My > attempts to email the responsible organizations have elicited either no > response, or unhelpful responses. The prevailing attitude seems to be, > "It works for Windows, so we don't care." > > On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Your BIOS is what is wrong. Apparently the BIOS protected mode interface > > is really a "Windows interface" and doesn't follow the rules: when Linux > > calls into it with a different segment setup than Windows does, the BIOS > > gets confused and does something illegal. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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