Dell advice [Off Topic]

[Torsten Krah]

Got 4 of the 755er Optiplex here. 2 of them are running fine with Ubuntu Gutsy 
7.10 64Bit, all is well here - must be unique to your box.

Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 22:38:24 schrieb John Hodrien:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> > On Jan 31, 2008 10:25 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
> >> For me, it's specific to the Optiplex 755.  All is well with Precisions
> >> we've got.  It's a subtle difference in the way the BIOS is handling the
> >> devices. In many ways it can be argued to be more correct, but that
> >> doesn't help if you're a linux user.
> >
> > Why I asked about the architecture you're running is that I wonder if
> > it is only a problem with the 32-bit kernel. I only did a quick search,
> > but there were a few mentions of 64-bit BAR fixes on LKML way back in
> > 2005.
>
> If that's the case and it's just something specific to this one machine
> then that'd be great.  It's not something nVidia appear to be aware of, and
> it failed to work *at all* with either nvidia or ati graphics with 4gb.
>
> I'll be doing a trawl of lkml for info, and I've found the ones you were
> referring to in 2005.  I'll see if nVidia know more, as they certainly
> should do (much more so than Dell).  If I'm just panicking over a faulty
> BIOS on one specific machine that'd make my day.
>
> jh


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