Intel Blames Motherboard Makers — BIOSes Disable Thermal and Power Protection, causing issues

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blunix said:
Recently in the DC: Dell says "well you can install Debian, but then you can't have support" xD

Always funky to work in the DC x)
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Are you talking about the Dell Community? Developer Community?
 
blunix said:
...Dell says "well you can install Debian, but then you can't have support"...
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That's a topic which made me curious considering i've recently purchased one of their Inspiron 15 3520.

Install? Inside MicroSoft's new cage called the 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' (WSL) perhaps?!...

Well, initially i found it was necessary to be polite with Win11 Fam "S", which refused to let me resize its partition on my NVMe drive at first... BitLocker was in the way it seemed, while total removal remains a non-option until a feature as screen mirroring is finally supported by Linux too, eventually. So i run it once in a while to let it do its thing, but not too often, really!

:rolleyes:
 
Egzoset said:
That's a topic which made me curious considering i've recently purchased one of their Inspiron 15 3520.

Install? Inside MicroSoft's new cage called the 'Windows Subsystem for Linux' (WSL) perhaps?!...

Well, initially i found it was necessary to be polite with Win11 Fam "S", which refused to let me resize its partition on my NVMe drive at first... BitLocker was in the way it seemed, while total removal remains a non-option until a feature as screen mirroring is finally supported by Linux too, eventually. So i run it once in a while to let it do its thing, but not too often, really!

:rolleyes:
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Is there a way to disable Bitlocker in the BIOS?
 
@Egzoset wrote:
BitLocker was in the way it seemed
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Maybe helpful:
Code: 
$ apt-cache search bitlocker
dislocker - read/write encrypted BitLocker volumes
libdislocker0-dev - read/write encrypted BitLocker volumes (development files)
libdislocker0.7t64 - read/write encrypted BitLocker volumes (shared library)
libbde-dev - BitLocker Drive Encryption access library -- development files
libbde-utils - Tools to access the BitLocker Drive Encryption format.
libbde1t64 - BitLocker Drive Encryption access library
python3-libbde - BitLocker Drive Encryption access library -- Python 3 bindings
 
Alexzee said:
Is there a way to disable Bitlocker in the BIOS?
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Well, "polite" means i performed the un-bitlocking via Windows exclusively, switching to Linux only after the partition had been reduced and a reboot still using Windows would happen to agree. Ah, and while i think of it i also saved my keys before touching anything...

Back to the announced topic, sorry for my side-comment, yet i'd point out the new Dell NetBook doesn't display on my large screen at boot time, while i have another unit connected to that very same monitor which does - so it's not the screen being faulty while there's Intel inside both machines anyway! When i search my uEFi BiOS no mirror/twin screen options are to be found as if i got no HDMi port for external DP monitors, which defeats BOOT MENUs if looking from a distance, as in TV applications... If it "works" for one Intel PC and not the other what does it leave except Dell precisely?

... :oops:

I've also noticed a lot of failures related to its "h2c" something... That would be about WiFi/Bluetooth and it turns out i've experienced difficulties pairing my headphones. The chip is from Realtek apparently, then again what's left to blame if not the glue inbetween!

In addition, it now seems like i'll have to check for thermal protection too, just in case. What next? Ubuntu-certified, really??

:eek:

Euh... If i were Dell i'd tell my employees to be more careful distributing blames.
 
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