Re: Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops
On Thursday 31 January 2013 9:48:45 am you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just have read this:
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Booting-Linux-using-UEFI-can-b
>rick-Samsung-laptops-1793958.html
>
> And I also found this:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557
>
> It seems that kernel's drive "samsung-laptop" can brick Samsung
> laptops, when trying to boot using UEFI.
> It happens on Ubuntu... Can anyone tell me how it is on Debian? Does
> Debian's kernel use this driver too?
>
> Thanks.
Try, searching your kernel config file, i.e. mine:
'cat /boot/config-2.6.32-5-amd64 |grep SAMSUNG'
CONFIG_HID_SAMSUNG=m
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_LAPTOP=m
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