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Is there a way to disable Bitlocker in the BIOS?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!
$ 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 bindingsAre you in a dual boot Linux and Windows?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?
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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??
Euh... If i were Dell i'd tell my employees to be more careful distributing blames.
A modern intel development, solid reliable BUT still very much considered an entry level CPU for laptops, [to give you some idea the I3-1005G1 from 2019/20 has a similar performance as the i5-6300U, from early 2015]
OK so this is not specific to any make of wi-fi,
LOL!« If it ain't broke don't fix it. »
I wish!
« If you can't fix it don't break it. You reap what you tweak. »
There's a trap hidden in every corner indeed.
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Data collection goes on, quite patiently, e.g. much slower than initially planned. At least it's clear the processor chip is a 12th generation Intel Core i3-1215U (e.g. with 2 more "cores" than my Atom had, with subtle nuances it seems).
An Intel 9462 chip was initially expected, instead i got some Realtek substitute supported by 'rtw88' (802.11ac) drivers including 'btrtl' - v0.1 for BlueTooth, not 1.0...
In any case the mere fact that [Fn] + [F8] effectively switches between my internal and external displays BEFORE the bootloader even took over simply tells me the odd Dell' uEFi BiOS ain't only about some driver issues anyway: this is the result of yet another poor (programmer) choice considering such "fix" only happens to be temporary - ah, and lets not waste time testing it on auxiliary keyboards for some mystery reason!
In other words that's no fault by Intel, not even the hardware manufacturer i think. Windows performance in terms of iP-TV & BT sound sessions proven solid (so far...) as i can move around without a glitch; last evening for example i was able to watch a full program via XUbuntu but a change of channel alone threatened that ellusive moment of serenity i'm afraid.
Besides the "logical" decisions i find my previous fanless tablet didn't depend on keeping it deployed at all times. In comparison Dell's Inspiron top-fins get actually blocked if its display just stands at an angle, to clear my view on the larger screen right behind. The Atom had its power button on the edge, now there's no way to use this replacement "NoteBook" without opening completely - with [F8] far away where i can't ready it's grey/obscure label. Definitely not Intel's legacy.
P.S.: I took note of the « inxi -Nn » advice even if that wasn't addressed to me. Thanks.
These are those got ya's that are IMO unseen at times.
Understood:-Disabling the external HDMi display during boot time was NOT my idea; yet it may have been this way before i noticed, from the begining. Anyway it sort of worries me still not having a BiOS recovery flash drive, being too lazy (after getting drained...), just assuming Dell's safeguards can catch up the day i need it...
It sure does, so far. Dell ruined a 1st impression nonetheless! What's troubling me most i guess was to find ZERO mentions of the string "B92LTW3" which i NOW know to be a « Sevice Tag S/N », since i found it in print on this NetBook's back... Checking my notes it seems many "Part Numbers" kept flying all over the place, hence the perpetual confusion - an unsolvable clue finally cleared with help from the machine itslef, via HardInfo: it's a Dell SKU #0B92.
The day before my purchase i downloaded document 'inspiron-3520-ss-fr.pdf' in some futile attempt to deceipher their configuration matrix, in vain as it obviously didn't allow ne to predict the outcome correctly. Of course there's lawyer fine-prints in it, paving the way to such model substitutions, so actually the term « unseen » sounds quite like an understatement here!!
I mean if one feels a need to hire a lawyer mandated to hire a NASA engineer, etc., m'well that maybe the hint it's going to prove wrong to overlook. They win, i loose: lesson learned, just too late as there can be only 1 first time.
Naturally it depends on the individual, my own fault was to be quick to gamble with a loaded dice. Other opportunities equally qualifiable as an « End-of-Life » product line offered me SATA3 like transfer performance too while i assumed M.2 juxtaposed with NVMe/PCIe was good news (...), especially putting a convenient amovible format in the balance that my selection option doesn't offer. Etc., etc.
Perhaps it's possible to get a great Linux experience, somewhere somehow. YMMV!
I wish the best of luck to all players...
