Re: Re: ACER Aspire 5000 <- Will these bios bugs ever be fixed?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2005-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>]

Erik Slagter schrieb:
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:01 +0200, Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
> 
> 
>>I did contact Acer and ask them to just apply some easy fixes
>>for the Ferrari 4005 battery detection. The reply I got was
>>very surprising. Basicly she told me they don't want my
>>business if I use anything other than windows.
> 
> 
> Dell is even worse. If you tell them you run Linux on your laptop they
> will try to convince you it may damage your hardware and you won't get
> any guarantee whatsoever etc. (this in reply to a simple purely hardware
> based question)

There are enough programs available for windows which can damage
hardware just fine. Besides that, it is impossible to determine
whether Linux ever was installed on such a machine if you make
a backup of the harddisk before the first boot and restore that
backup if problems appear.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/


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