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Originally Posted by iMav
The specific model is not meant/optimized/made for Linux. That's it. They have said that it does not support Linux, it doesn't. It is their choice to make model A capable of handling both Linux & Windows. It is their choice of making model B not being able to run Linux or Windows.
They are NOT harming Linux. The model states that Vista certified. And that's what it is.
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who asked them to *certify* it for linux.......and which board has a "made for linux" sticker on it for that matter....
linux just expects acpi compilant motherboard......but the bios points linux to a bad DSDT table resulting in kernel panics.......
why should the manufacturer deliberately do that? and to quote you from the ubuntu forums thread...
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Linux and FreeBSD do not work with this motherboard due to it's ACPI configuration, using a disassembler program, I have found that it detects Linux specifically and points it to bad DSDT tables, thereby corrupting it's hardware support, changing this and setting the system to override the BIOS ACPI DSDT tables with a customized version that passes the Windows versions to Linux gives Linux ACPI support stated on the box, I am complaining because I feel this violates an anti-trust provision in the Microsoft settlement, I further believe that Microsoft is giving Foxconn incentives to cripple their motherboards if you try to boot to a non-Windows OS.
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