I have this little Medion Akoya E2228T MD61900 Convertible here. It was sold with Windows and apparently has some sensors not yet handled by Linux, like the “hinge is open more than 190°” (in Windows, this disables keyboard & touchpad).
When booting, I get messages like this, suggesting to “fix it”:
[ 10.117259] gpio gpiochip4: (INT0002 Virtual GPIO): not an immutable chip, please consider fixing it!
sudo sensors-detect shows this:
Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done.
Driver `coretemp':
* Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)
Driver `to-be-written':
* ISA bus, address 0xca0
Chip `IPMI BMC KCS' (confidence: 4)
* ISA bus, address 0xca8
Chip `IPMI BMC SMIC' (confidence: 4)
Note: there is no driver for IPMI BMC KCS yet.
Check https://hwmon.wiki.kernel.org/device_support_status for updates.
To load everything that is needed, add this to /etc/modules:
#----cut here----
# Chip drivers
coretemp
#----cut here----
If you have some drivers built into your kernel, the list above will
contain too many modules. Skip the appropriate ones!
I wonder if I should do something here (like maybe disabling these somehow), or just run the system “as-is”, because it doesn’t seem to have any harmful effects.
Disclaimer: I’m currently running this thingy on Mint, but I remember getting the same on EOS.
So this is more a general question about “How to handle unknown hardware” in EOS/Arch.