Bit frustrating to not be able to correct my previous post with respect
to the incorrect version number 1.0.0.3. The correction version number
is not completely clear, but the version date should be MARCH 2013, just
to be clear.
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You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub
Not sure. I guess you are referring to the BIOS signatures. Actually I
just noted that the version number I gave above is INCORRECT. That is
the number shown on the Samsung NL site, but that version is dated 6
March 2012 (Twelve) so is an old version. The Samsung Windows update
tool, however, did i
Samsung have published a BIOS update, version 1.0.0.3, which should
correct the underlying problem.
So possibly the Linux installation procedure could now be amended to:
a) check whether the computer has a samsung bios lower 1.0.0.3, and if
so warn the user to upgrade, and if the user continues t
I don't know the full details, but believe the bug was triggered by part
of the BIOS which came from an OEM for part of the hardware in these
computers. If that is the case, it could be the same bug. What makes
this bug so critical to fix is indeed that it is not Ubuntu which is the
cause, that it
Good news I think. Today I understood from Samsung here in the
Netherlands, who went out of their way to follow up on my request for
information / action on this issue, that together with their partners on
the bios hardware drivers they are hard at work at addressing this. They
hope to have a BIOS
Thanks for that post Jean-Louis. That is good information I think. I had
already sent a link to this thread to Samsung customer support in the
Netherlands to alert them to this and request a quick fix from them but
have not seen anything back yet except receipt confirmation. I have now
also forward
I just got a Samsung series 7 chronos 700Z5C-S02 with the intent of
installing XUbuntu 12.04 on it dual boot with Windows 8 (still can't
completely dump Windows as I need to be able to work with MS Access
regularly). Luckilly I ran into this series of posts before succeeding
in starting to attempt
