Was thinking in the past, that I shouldn’t have updated the bios. And I probably shouldn’t have updated it to begin with.
They add unwanted features to new bios. Then you have to keep updating, until they remove the unwanted features.
And I doubt PSP can be disabled on this HP laptop. They call it a “security” feature.
Trying the 6.6.138-1-lts66 kernel now. Don’t think I tried the LTS 6.6 kernel.
Ubuntu says this laptop works with 6.8, but that isn’t an LTS version. That would be an unsupported version now probably.
And the bios version they say works, is different then what I have. But it might be a different region model.
Also, says some of them come preinstalled with a custom Ubuntu image, and may not work at all with the official Ubuntu image.
Should have got the Frame.work laptop, for about the same price.
Could get a refurbished one for $729 or so. Take the RAM and SSD out of this one. But, not sure how well Linux works on that either. I saw on their forum, people were having issues with Linux on it, and not even using an eGPU.
But can PSP be disabled on it? Can the iGPU be disabled in the bios? Might be a bummer, if the eGPU stopped working though. Might have to open laptop, and remove CMOS battery.
And the bios update, may have added a new feature.
“AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out”
Or the LTS 6.6 kernel has that issue. And 6.1 doesn’t.
Haven’t gotten that yet with LTS 6.1. Did disable the Thunderbolt option ROM setting in the bios. Don’t think that did anything for that though.
According to the AI, I don’t need that enabled. Booting from Thunderbolt, and it might be needed.