Dell has been very Linux friendly. They even sent me a recover disk when I told them I was going to put Linux on the box. Be careful when buying a Dell if you want to run more than one monitor. They do not tell you their cards only push one monitor on most models. I was surprised...... On 2014-11-14 00:50, Michael Butash wrote: > Don't buy HP - been there, done that.  Told "linux isn't relevant > enough to fix a bios bug".  Stopped buying them. > > Sadly no, vendors (like hp) suck for linux at times and in general, > might try some of the various grub flags for disabling acpi, if a > desktop and not sleeping, you're not losing much except maybe some > power management.  Dell is generally more friendly, but as I > mentioned not always either.  Anything windoze 8.x-ish is just > generally more unfriendly/quirky toward linux I find. > > Thank them when you pay your next microsoft tax on a prebuilt system. > > -mb > > On 11/13/2014 11:41 PM, Stephen M wrote: > >> I've tried looking on HP's website and it says I have the latest >> BIOs.  So unless I look for the specific board I think it's updated >> right now.  Unless you have suggestions. >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael Butash >> wrote: >> >> I've never had it flip on and off, few times with a new laptop I'll >> try to start vbox and realize the vt setting is off after a minute >> of scratching my head, but not revert randomly. >> >> See if there is a bios update too.  Seems no one bothers to make >> anything right the first time since microsoft perfected the "ship >> crap and patch later" game. >> >> You want really odd bios, my newest dell laptop after about a month >> of use with only suspends will start turning itself back on back >> on.  Even with a poweroff now, I have to literally 5 second >> poweroff to make it stay down or it'll just start booting again.  >> Ghost in the shell, or at least acpi functions. >> >> -mb >> >> On 11/13/2014 06:25 PM, Stephen M wrote: >> >> Now I don't think this is very relevant but I also have virtualbox >> setup on my laptop. I've not had an issue yet like on my desktop.  >> The difference is that this laptop is a little newer and also I'm >> not dual booting my laptop.  Other than that they are both setup >> the same way. >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Stephen M >> wrote: >> >> My computer is around 5 years old and I don't think there is an app >> that controls the BIOS that I'm aware of.  The CMOS battery could >> be an issue because when I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't >> set correctly.  But the date was so I could try that. >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Butash >> wrote: >> >> Sounds like your bios is resetting - maybe the cmos battery?  The >> VT bit is a bios setting, really shouldn't change unless you have a >> os-level app that controls the bios too.  Seems most newer >> non-basic boards have this now. >> >> -mb >> >> On 11/13/2014 02:52 PM, Stephen M wrote: >> >> It happened the same in 12.04 with 14.04.  I have the latest >> version of virtualbox which is 4.3.18 and the expansion pack. >> >> If anyone can think of ideas why this might be happening that would >> be helpful.  But at this time I might have to look for a new >> computer. >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Stephen M >> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I'm not sure if someone has already asked this question.  I have a >> 64 bit host that I have VT enabled in the BIOS.  I can sometime >> create/run 64 bit guest machines and other times not.  It is >> usually when I reboot my computer. >> >> I have tried to turn off VT or just having it on.  It will >> eventually come back though.  This problem has been going on for a >> while now.  I was on Ubuntu 12.04 but now 14.04 beyond that nothing >> else changed.  >> >> -- >> >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 [2] >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> -- >> >> Stephen Melheim >> 602-400-7707 [2] >> SMelheim85@gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 [2] > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > -- > > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 [2] > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > > Stephen Melheim > 602-400-7707 > SMelheim85@gmail.com > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > [2] tel:602-400-7707 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss