Linux users consistently get the short end of the stick when it comes to BIOS updates. Oftentimes dmesg will show us that something is wrong in the BIOS and we have no way to fix it.

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It’s a disaster of a monumental scale. It’s a nice laptop when it works, but oftentimes with fedora or suse (or any other distro which uses the intel driver rather than vesa) the screen “flickers” and the laptop runs like junk until you CTRL+ALT+F2 it and back again a few times. Realtek Bluetooth Driver For Windows 10 Hp. The dmesg log will be filled with errors about intel_iommu and the kernel will report a crash. Officially the problem is a buggy BIOS, what’s actually happening is the iommu register is being mapped to ‘0’ rather than any actual address. This means the CPU has it, the BIOS maps it incorrectly and then tells the OS to use ‘0’ as the address in memory.