On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Catherine Gramze <rhia...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I contacted MSI to ask if they made a motherboard I could use. Here is the > exchange: > > Me: I want to purchase a motherboard for a Linux computer. I would prefer > one that would accept the new Haswell processor. The BIOS must allow for > Secure Boot to be disabled, and CSM mode to be enabled, e.g. UEFI disabled. > This would obviously be a board that is not compliant with Microsoft's new > "Connected-stand-by" feature. Do you make such a board, and if you do which > board might it be? > MSI tech: MSI does not perform and provide any Linux support for mb, only > Windows. > > This looks to me like a stock refusal to even consider a technical question > (because I mentioned Linux) rather than an affirmation that they have > implemented Connected-standby and that their BIOS lacks the options to > disable Secure Boot and UEFI.
Why don't you want UEFI? (I'd never heard of Connected Standby before. Any idea how to check, from Linux, whether it's supported by the firmware?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzFzMmu5Dnkby=3bhOP9=zokjfo7jfvzd5ze8j4dm5...@mail.gmail.com
