Re: [Ilugc] Influence of M$ on hardware

2010-12-13 Thread steve
Hi, On 12/13/2010 08:44 PM, siddharth srivastava wrote: > Some findings and discussions have lead to this conclusion that some > manufacturers have been duped into allowing there acpi code to be compiled > by m$ compiler You got it a bit backwards. From the ACPI wikipedia entry: -

Re: [Ilugc] Influence of M$ on hardware

2010-12-13 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:44 PM, siddharth srivastava wrote: > Hi > > Just sharing a small incident of influence of M$ on hardware. > I have been suffering with overheating of my Dell laptop for about over a > month. It occurs(yeah still occurs) only with linux and not with windose. >

[Ilugc] Influence of M$ on hardware

2010-12-13 Thread siddharth srivastava
Hi Just sharing a small incident of influence of M$ on hardware. I have been suffering with overheating of my Dell laptop for about over a month. It occurs(yeah still occurs) only with linux and not with windose. Earlier I thought it was a kernel issue but now I have figured out that the problem l