On 08/29/2014 03:20 AM, dale wrote:
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 18:39 +0545, dale wrote:
Although that still begs the question of whether it being turned off in
BIOS/UFEI before or after installation actually makes any difference...
Now this is something that has been harder for me to get my head around
than benefit/disadvantages to HT!
When I got this laptop it had Window7 pre-installed with a bunch of
Lenovo software on it. At the time I know nothing of changes from BIOS
to UEFI! One of the first things I did was install Ubuntu Studio 12.04
on it, using Legacy mode as I wasn't sure if it was UEFI compatible and
my laptop seems to allow both.
This has caused various headaches I have kind learned to live with. Main
one being relating to screen brightness. If I set a low default screen
brightness in Windows then it seems to change the range of brightness
Linux can display. This was even more noticable when running LiveUSB
distros! I actually couldn't get the screen bright enough to see what I
was doing without setting the level within Windows bright again!
Then I read (or skimmed) this yesterday and feel even more confused.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI
But I am starting to think I should try enabling it with a Linux
install. Especially as I plan to completely banish Windows from the
computer now... But I thought I would ask what more experienced Linux
users have to say about UEFI mode vs BIOS/Legacy mode.
Again thanks for all the help. Dale.
Hmm, found this page at the Ubuntu Community about Ubuntu and UEFI.
Apparently it can be installed in SecureBoot mode. I don't know what
other distros can. I have Debian Sid on 2 machines here with EUFI, but
both are in BIOS/Legacy mode.
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