On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 1:20 PM EpicLemon99 <EpicLemon99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have problems trying to use Linux distributions on my new machine, a HP Pavilion TG01-2856no. The CPU it has was released Q1 2021. > > My problem is that whenever I boot a Linux distribution ISO, it appears that my CPU stalls on tasks, and I get this error: > ACPI Error: Needed [Integer/String/Buffer] found [Device] 00000000d0fa616a (20200925/exresop-388) > ACPI Error: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] (20200925/dswexec-431) This means that the AML byte code interpreter in the kernel has problems with the contents of the ACPI tables on the system. > The most recent kernel version this has happened on is 5.13.13, with Arch Linux. This should be recent enough. > I could get journalctl logs from NixOS: https://ibb.co/album/9wMM0p > > The fact that I have the same problem on multiple distributions has led me to believe that it's something to do with the kernel or ACPI, but I could be wrong. > > I have set Secure Boot off in my BIOS settings and the SATA emulation is set to AHCI. I have tried with RAID. > > I have tried the following boot options: nomodeset, noacpi, noapic, acpi=off. And what happened with acpi=off? > The only distributions that I have managed to get working are Devuan and Gentoo. Well, that doesn't help much as long as you don't know what additional kernel patches they carry.
