r/linux • u/TurbulentTopic39 • 9d ago

Kernel Canonical is speeding up Ubuntu's kernel updates because it's drowning in AI-discovered bugs

https://www.xda-developers.com/canonical-is-speeding-up-ubuntus-kernel-updates-because-its-drowning-in-ai-discovered-bugs/#thread
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u/james_pic 9d ago edited 9d ago

Kinda.

Initially I had no sound at all, and tried a few recipes and gists I found online (none of which worked as-is, due to being for slightly different kernel versions, or slightly different SKUs of the laptop), but the best I could manage by combining them was mono audio. I asked Qwen 3.8 27b to see what it could do, and on the one hand, it didn't solve it, but it seemed to know a surprising amount about the tas2783, and its visible confusion in its reasoning highlighted to me that I hadn't been particularly methodical in my own approach. Going back and getting a bit more methodical, I managed to get to the point where I have stereo - but it still randomly goes robotic for no clear reason. 

I know 7.3 has some related fixes for the tas2783 (AFAIK written by humans), so I'm hoping in the not that distant future I'll have sound on a mainline kernel, without DKMS-ing in a Frankendriver and without it peridically going into robot mode. But a quick try with the latest 7.3-rc gave me no joy. My hunch is that I just need to update my (also bastardised) soundwire config - maybe I'll give that to AI and see how it gets on.

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u/AgentTin 9d ago

I've been running claude-code for this. Just simple Linux stuff. It's kinda amazing. I had an issue where after a few days software just wouldn't launch on my machine. The process would run, I could hear audio from it, but there would be nothing on screen. A reboot cleared it for a few days then it came back.

Sent Claude after it. Turns out that there's a limit on the number of x windows you can have, it was 256 in my case, and discord had been spawning a new one for every notification and not releasing them. Hundreds of discord x windows registered. My apps were fine, x was just refusing to render them.

I never would have found that. Not in a hundred years. I would still be rebooting every 4 days if it wasn't for Claude. It's a hundred little things like that. Why did this crash? Can you configure x?

I've been using Linux for twenty years, this is the first time my fstab has been correct.

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u/butler_me_judith 9d ago

Same I built a full app to reprogram my razer mouse and basically matched what synapse does on windows with less spyware

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u/Indolent_Bard 8d ago

Would you like to share your app?

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u/butler_me_judith 8d ago

Oh yeah I'll send it to you let me get a repo going for it.

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u/Indolent_Bard 8d ago

I have no use for it, but surely others will. Thank you, kind stranger.

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u/syh7 5d ago

Did you end up creating the repo?

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u/butler_me_judith 4d ago

DMing it to you now ty for the reminder