The settings on KDE show this info about my computer after buying a used motherboard. Apparently it came from a prebuilt, though it is a standard ASUS board. Where does this branding come from and is it possible to remove it?
The branding also shows in inxi:
Machine: Type: Desktop System: PC Specialist product: Tornado R7S v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required> part-nu: 1744753 UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4402 date: 12/13/2023
It can’t be removed. That info comes straight from the hardware itself (UEFI and individual devices).
I mean you could always hack the firmware…
Did you buy your motherboard used? I wonder if it came out of that system and the builder was somehow able to change the DMI information
I did buy it used yes. That’s interesting, I wonder if I can change that or did they order the boards from ASUS with their branding
This is part of the motherboard and can only be changed with specific tools from the manufacturer. Back in the days there was
AMIDEDOSas a dos tool to change it in AMI Bios. You would need to find out, what tool can be used to change it in your UEFI. However, it’s possible that those tools are not available to the public.@vaionko@sopuli.xyz I’ve found this (scroll down to #5 if it won’t scroll automatically). It shows some tools that can be used to change DMI information for different Manufacturers.
Hmm I might try one from there, although it requires Windows. I’ll see if it works on Hiren’s boot cd.
I thought TianoCore EDK 2 was open source? If your UEFI is EDK 2 its code should be wide open and availablem
From the system’s DMI. You can check it yourself with
dmidecode. Those values are largely unchangeable, and those that are, will probably require a tool from the vendor to change, which are usually for internal use only within their company.woaw that’s pretty cool huh
Look at
kinfoor kinfocenterAre just adding a ‘k’ to regular words like they with ‘quantum’ in Ant-Man: Quantumania?
Yes, it’s kool
KDE was originally called “Kool Desktop Environment” until they renamed it, first to “K Desktop Environment” then to just “KDE”.
It was the first Linux desktop environment that tried to make all its apps look consistent. Before KDE, Linux UI apps were very inconsistent, each one using whatever UI toolkit it wanted. They likely named all of them with a K to make the naming somewhat consistent too.
Gtk was released two years later, originally only used in GIMP (Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”) and it took a while for other desktop environments to have a consistent look and feel like KDE did.
Gtk originally stood for for “GIMP ToolKit”
The “GNUs Not Unix Image Manipulation ToolKit” becomes Gtk (fucking autocorrect)
Naming shit on Linux is so fun
You forgot program. The P in GIMP
kinfocenter is an application in Plasma where you can see all kinds of information about your system. So no, they are not just adding k to random words like quantum in Ant-man. :)
So they didn’t just add a k to infocenter? ;)
The poster did not, no. Plasma had a habit, back in the day, of doing that, but not for a while now.
I mean it is useful. And they dont use “Kelvin” or something
kinfo doesn’t show it but it does show in kinfocenter. It shows up in dmidecode -t 1 also.
You might be able to flash the retail BIOS to remove the OEM stuff, but often if it’s running a specific OEM BIOS it’ll block you from flashing a retail version.
It probably comes from SMBIOS.
Attempting to change it might be complicated. If you really need to for some reason my guess is that the least difficult way would be to hide it from the system by hacking the kernel to modify sysfs.
