No more interrupt loops

9 April 2026

I used to have severe problems installing and running Linux Mint on an HP Pavilion laptop, due to an endless loop of interrupts. Later on I had similar problems, though not nearly as severe, using Bunsenlabs Boron on a Clevo laptop bought from Dutch vendor BTO.

Meanwhile on both machines I have changed the OS to Debian Forky (a.k.a. Testing), with Fluxbox as a superlight and simple Desktop Environment (without the desktop, which I do not need). And the interrupt loops are gone! I suspect something was done in the Linux kernel to solve it. But I’m not sure.

In both cases, uname -a reports 6.19.10+deb14-amd64 as the Linux kernel version.

From dmidecode I get this information, for the HP:

HP: SMBIOS 2.8 present
Platform Firmware Information
	Vendor: Insyde
	Version: F.21
	Release Date: 06/13/2017
	Platform Firmware Revision: 15.33
	Embedded Controller Firmware Revision: 84.51

And for the Clevo (BTO):

BTO: SMBIOS 3.2.0 present
Platform Firmware Information
	Vendor: INSYDE Corp.
	Version: 1.07.13
	Release Date: 10/27/2020
	Platform Firmware Revision: 7.13
	Embedded Controller Firmware Revision: 7.5

As you can imagine, I am quite pleased with this.