Bug 33347

Summary:	LG Gram 2024 laptops install is not possible with Mageia 9
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jacques Le Marois <lemaroisml>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	fri, mageia, rverschelde
Version:	9
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-31555-1-lg-gram-2024-et-lancement-grub.php
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description Jacques Le Marois 2024-07-01 15:19:46 CEST

The installation of Mageia 9 is not possible on LG Gram 2024 laptops (14Z90S-G.AD78F). It's fine with LG Gram 2023.

Either with the live-cd or with a fresh install with updated during the install.

On start it's locked after failures messages on :
intel_vpu
Bluetooth: hci0
iwlwifi
sof-audio-pci-intel-mtl
and failed to start shorewall.service

screenshots are available on mageialinux-online post.

It works with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

There is another problem for both Ubuntu and Mageia : grub is not launching on start.

Comment 1 Jacques Le Marois 2024-07-01 15:23:36 CEST

Here the Mageia-linux page with the description :
https://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-31555-lg-gram-2024-et-lancement-grub.php

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2024-07-01 15:56:53 CEST

Thank you for the report.

The failures you see, is it during install or when it is installed?

Do the Mageia Live run without installing it?

CC: (none) => fri

Comment 3 Jacques Le Marois 2024-07-01 16:46:40 CEST

The failure is after it is installed. The Mageia live don't run and is locked in the same manner

Comment 4 Jacques Le Marois 2024-07-01 16:48:17 CEST

Nota during the install it's not possible to configure the wifi to get updates while it works with usb-ethernet.

Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2024-07-01 20:16:26 CEST

I see it is progressing slightly at the link given in comment 2.
CC someone who have better clue than me...

CC: (none) => rverschelde

Morgan Leijström 2024-07-01 20:17:12 CEST

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 6 Martin Whitaker 2024-07-01 23:18:35 CEST

The kernel firmware packages in mga9 date from 2023-11-11. So they likely don't support the very latest hardware.

Comment 7 Morgan Leijström 2024-07-02 09:44:59 CEST

Setting to kernel maintainers then

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 8 Jacques Le Marois 2024-07-02 12:17:09 CEST

It might be related to this :

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LG-Gram-2024-Laptops-LInux
https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/20240606233540.9774-1-W_Armin@gmx.de/

A user complained that the lg-laptop driver does not work on 2024
models like the LG Gram 16Z90S-G.AD7BF. The underlying reason turned
out to be that the ACPI methods used by this driver where not mapped
under \XINI, but instead under \_SB.XINI. Those ACPI methods are
associated with the LGEX0820 ACPI device, which was not used by this
driver until now.

The first three patches move the airplane mode hotkey handling out
of lg-laptop and into the wireless-hotkey driver. This necessary
because the airplane mode hotkey is handled by a different ACPI
device (LGEX0815).

The last patch finally fixes the underlying issue and uses the
LGEX0820 ACPI device to find theWMAB/WMBB ACPI methods.

The modified drivers where tested by the user which created the
bug report and appear to work without issues.