On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:28:50AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
Wow 30 watts sounds very low. Id stay clear of Foxconn though, there Linux support has been quite poor in the past. It seems like they did try to fix the problem but at the start it seemed like they were trying to make there boards less stable on Linux: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
If you read through the whole forum thread (and the liked continuation one) it seems that FoxConn (and/or AMI) have produced a fix for the broken BIOS/ACPI tables.
It also seems to me that some of the original accusations there were a little OTT - though that's still open to debate.
-- Chris Green
Ye agreed, looking at it again the accusations do seem over the top. I hadn't read the story since it was first posted and after reading the mjg59 blog posts it seems the first guy was wrong and jumping to conclutions. Sorry for any confusion caused and thanks for the other posts Brett they put the whole thing in a new light.
I'd be interested to know how the board works out for you.
Dennis