how to repair

Hello markscave

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i am new to this and have been searching for answers. if this is a hardware item it should work. but only found how to block the message. ever thing seams to work. this is a new install on a multilazer laptop.

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

It appears you are running linux Mint 20. Cinnamon is the name of the desktop, not the distribution. A quick search shows this is a message due to an error in HW/SW state checker logic and as you posted does not effect the running of the operating system/desktop. This was supposed to be fixed a few years ago in kernel 4.14 something so I wonder since Mint 20 is using kernel 5.8 why you are still seeing this warning. As far as I know it is safe to ignore but not something you can fix.

i found my kernel in the up date section. it is 5.4 so i well try updating this to 5.8

good morning. I have reloaded mint 4 time now. still the same i915 error.mark@marks-PC301:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.8.0-50-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa
base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Multilaser product: PC301 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: Multilaser model: PC301 v: Type2 - Board Version serial: <filter>
UEFI: INSYDE v: 133BY.MULTILASER.A005 date: 04/26/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 41.8 Wh condition: 41.8/41.8 Wh (100%)
model: LG Harris Beach status: Full
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Pentium N3700 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Airmont rev: 3 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 12800
Speed: 480 MHz min/max: 480/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 677 2: 687
3: 898 4: 772
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx
Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 405 (BSW) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series
High Definition Audio
vendor: Realtek driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: Denron USB 2.0 Camera type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-1:2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-50-generic
Network:
Message: No Device data found.
Device-1: Realtek 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: btusb,rtl8xxxu
bus ID: 1-5:5
IF: wlxd4d2d6514144 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 43.79 GiB used: 9.94 GiB (22.7%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: M0S001 size: 28.91 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda type: USB model: Mass Storage Device size: 14.88 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 27.83 GiB used: 9.89 GiB (35.5%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 212 Uptime: 46m Memory: 3.68 GiB used: 1.10 GiB (29.9%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17
inxi: 3.0.38
mark@marks-PC301:~$
LOG MESSAGES
08:54:25 sudo: mark : a password is required ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/mark ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/hddtemp -nq -u C /dev/sda
08:53:28 bluetoothd: bt_uhid_send: Invalid argument (22)
08:07:46 kernel: silead_ts i2c-MSSL1680:00: Firmware request error -2
08:07:45 kernel: [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
08:07:45 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
08:07:45 kernel: [drm:wait_panel_status [i915]] *ERROR* PPS state mismatch
08:07:45 kernel: integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65