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[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 30 November 2007 09:32:07 Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> It's still an HP pavilion, which is something I would not want to have
> to deal with.  My experience over the last few years is that all HP
> consumer products are terrible.

Yeah, I bought an HP system for my mum.  Looked good but keyboard was USB and 
wouldn't work unless I disabled USB legacy mode in the BIOS.  No matter what 
BIOS USB settings I chose the computer would not recognize USB keys or her 
digital camera (the kernel wasn't even registering that a device had 
appeared).

I upgraded her recently to 2.6.22 kernel an now all the USB issues seem to be 
resolved however the issue of BIOS updates is still problematic (windows 
only).  IIIRC I managed to extract a firmware image from the windows 
executable however I wasn't able to find a flash utility that was willing to 
function with the board.

HP has their act together on the server side of the Linux world but when it 
comes to consumer products Linux is totally ignored as far as I can tell.  I 
won't make the mistake of buying another HP desktop, either homebuilt or much 
better researched brandname next time around.

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Georgetown, Ontario, Canada
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