I have a Dell Latitude 5580 laptop and just upgraded it's BIOS. After upgrade completed I now receive this message on every boot:
"Alert! TPM Device not detected."
And it gives me these options:
F1 retry boot
F2 go to BIOS settings
Mercifully hitting F1 loads my Mint 19.3 and everything seems to work fine. I researched this via Google and Dell and tried the fix that works for some where you power off, disconnect from AC, disconnect battery, hold power button 60 seconds to fully discharge, then reconnect battery and turn machine back on. No luck. And looked in BIOS and no settings for TPM which there are supposed to be it sounds like. Some recommend upgrading TPM firmware while others are saying that hosed things further, so I'm shying away from that. Some also saying this message went away when they reformatted hard drive and set up Windows in their case from scratch. But that's a lot of work for something that may or may not fix. Maybe some day when I do wipe/reinstall Mint I'll see if this fixes the issue.
Is this something related to Mint in any way? I assume not?
Is TPM needed in Mint? I looked at other threads and sounds like the answer is no.
And semi-related, this machine used to dual-boot with Windows but now I got rid of Windows and did clean install with just LM 19.3. But when it was a dual-boot machine I disabled Secure Boot in BIOS on recommendation of some that makes dual-boot install go smoother. And just kept it disabled. Since I'm just running LM 19.3 now is it safe these days to enable it? Won't mess anything up? Or perhaps just leave it disabled as not needed?
It's a bummer, but I'm fine with pressing F1 on device boot if the concensus is that TPM is not needed.
Thanks in advance.
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System: Host: latitude Kernel: 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 5580 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis:
type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Dell model: N/A serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.19.2 date: 01/25/2021
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 67.2 Wh condition: 67.2/68.0 Wh (99%) volts: 8.3/7.6
model: LGC-LGC8.820 DELL DV9NT77 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-7600U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
rev: 9 L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 23199
Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 400/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 601 2: 612 3: 601 4: 633
Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:5916
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8
compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:9d71
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-80-generic
Drives: Local Storage: total: 357.85 GiB used: 222.13 GiB (62.1%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: 128GB size: 119.37 GiB serial: <filter> scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: X400 M.2 2280 256GB size: 238.47 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 2012 scheme: GPT
RAID: Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci v: 3.0
port: f060 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 21
Partition: ID-1: / size: 233.24 GiB used: 110.52 GiB (47.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Repos: No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb https://mirrors.sonic.net/mint/packages tricia main upstream import backport
2: deb http://mirrors.sonic.net/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
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6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam.list
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Info: Processes: 298 Uptime: 27m Memory: 31.25 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (4.7%) Init: systemd
v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20
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