Comment # 31 on bug 1206767 from Larry Finger

(In reply to Dave Plater from comment #30)
> Things are looking promising, the driver works 100% with the latest
> Tumbleweed Kde live image, the mc bug has caught up with Leap:15.5 so
> there's no reason not to upgrade to Tumbleweed again. Busy with a big
> project atm and the laptop is my oscilloscope and logic analyzer so I'll
> upgrade in a weeks time and maybe we can close this bug.
> The fix more than likely came from a windows hp bios update a few months ago.

That guess about the fix is quite likely the correct one.

Coding for a BIOS is apparently too hard for the current crop of software
people at many vendors. I recently heard that a major vendor had a problem with
version X.6, and it took them till X.12 to actually get it fixed.