Compaq Presario SR1000 / SR1116FR, MSI MS-6577 (Xenon) Gamila/Giovani/Neon series
ACPI fix!
Yes, you read that right, the bug that HP/Compaq never fixed is finally no more, 16 years later. You probably don't care but here it is anyway.
Bug
Basically the bug is as follow: you want to use Linux on this machine, but it doesn't power off when you shut it down, you cannot put it to sleep, nouveau driver for NVidia GPUs doesn't load, etc…
At boot, you may be greeted by the following message:
Code:
[ 0.000000] ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was
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