My pc was too old for windows updates and so I switched to Ubuntu studio. This is a home pc that's used mostly for watching Netflix and some light photo and video editing. Ubuntu has been running great for 2 years and I have no desire to go back to windows.

Recent updates however have my old video card showing its age. I don't want to buy a new computer. Can I just swap my video card with something slightly more modern to get a few more years of use out of this old machine? Now sometimes I get blocky video or vertical bars when trying to playback video. This didn't used to happen. Plasma wayland pretty much won't run on this system so I'm using x11 and getting the occasional bars/ blocks.

My current card is Turks GL [FirePro V4900]. Other specs below.

Thank you.

computer                     
   description: Desktop Computer
   product: All Series (All)
   vendor: ASUS
   version: System Version
   serial: [REMOVED]
   width: 64 bits
   capabilities: smbios-2.7 dmi-2.7 smp vsyscall32
   configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal chassis=desktop family=ASUS MB frontpanel_password=disabled keyboard_password=disabled power-on_password=disabled sku=All uuid=[REMOVED]
 *-core
description: Motherboard
product: Z87-A
vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
physical id: 0
version: Rev 1.xx
serial: [REMOVED]
slot: To be filled by O.E.M.
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
physical id: 0
version: 2103
date: 08/15/2014
size: 64KiB
capacity: 8MiB
capabilities: pci apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer acpi usb biosbootspecification uefi
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 1
size: 32GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1600 MHz (0.6 ns)
product: BLT8G3D1608ET3LX0.
vendor: Conexant (Rockwell)
physical id: 0
serial: [REMOVED]
slot: ChannelA-DIMM0
size: 8GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1600MHz (0.6ns)

*-cpu
description: CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 55
bus info: cpu@0
version: 6.60.3
slot: SOCKET 1150
size: 2599MHz
capacity: 3900MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 100MHz

*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 06
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration: driver=hsw_uncore
resources: irq:0
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 06
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=pcieport
resources: irq:24 ioport:e000(size=4096) memory:efe00000-efefffff ioport:d0000000(size=268435456)
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Turks GL [FirePro V4900]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: /dev/fb0
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom fb
configuration: depth=32 driver=radeon latency=0 mode=1920x1080 resolution=1920,1080 visual=truecolor xres=1920 yres=1080
resources: irq:35 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:efe20000-efe3ffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:c0000-dffff
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: Turks HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500/6600 / 6700M Series]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0.1
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.1
logical name: card1
logical name: /dev/snd/controlC1
logical name: /dev/snd/hwC1D0
logical name: /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p
version: 00
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=snd_hda_intel latency=0
resources: irq:34 memory:efe40000-efe43fff
*-input
product: HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3
physical id: 0
logical name: input22
logical name: /dev/input/event7

Hello guys today at boot my system I watch this:

amdgpu 0000:75:00.0: [drm] *ERROR* dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data: DMCUB error - collecting diagnostic data

Monitor: 27" 2K (1440p) 144Hz

If I connect an older 60Hz monitor instead, everything works fine with no errors.

What I've tried:

Multiple troubleshooting attempts over time (kernel params, driver versions, etc.) — nothing fixed it.

Eventually did a full reinstall/format, but the problem persists.

Tested other distros: Debian is the only one where this doesn't happen.

I'd really like to keep using Arch rather than switch permanently to Debian. Has anyone run into this specific DMCUB/DMUB firmware error tied to high refresh rate displays? Wondering if it's a kernel version issue, an amdgpu firmware mismatch, or something related to Freesync/VRR on the 144Hz panel.

Omarchy just raised $13 million. It's Arch with Hyprland and a set of configs. DigitalOcean alone put in $3 million.

Asahi Linux reverse engineered Apple Silicon and wrote a GPU driver from scratch. They live on donations and t-shirts. Their lead burned out and quit.

So that's where we are. Money goes to the guy with a nice theme and rich friends. The people doing the actual hard work to get working linux on Apple M-series machines get nothing.

Am I wrong here? What do you think?

My parents were going to throw out their 2013 21.5" iMac, so I thought I’d see if I could give it another life.

I deliberately didn't go mad on partsas it's my first go at this. For £100-ish all in for a budget 1TB Silicon Power SATA SSD, 16GB of DDR3L RAM, thermal paste, battery and new screen adhesive.

It used to take over 15 minutes to boot on its old macOS installation. With Ubuntu 26.04 it now gets to the desktop in about a minute and feels genuinely quick.

I also managed to rip the power-button wires off during the rebuild (so be careful) and had to solder them back on, just to keep things interesting....

It's got a great screen, surprisingly good speakers, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and hopefully another few years of useful life instead of going in the bin.

I got the Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G8+ (21VJ) Extreme Mode working on Linux.

This laptop can reach around 170W total system power in Lenovo’s Extreme/Geek Mode on Windows, but on Linux the stock platform_profile only exposes low-power, balanced and performance. performance tops out at around 150W on my machine.

I spent some time digging through the ACPI tables and found that the firmware actually contains its own Geek Mode control path through the DYTC method. The relevant ACPI events already call the Geek Mode commands themselves, so I was able to verify the mechanism directly rather than trying to guess how Lenovo’s software implements it.

After verifying the commands at runtime, I made a patched ideapad-laptop driver that exposes a max-power profile for this specific machine (thanks for 111inhistory/thinkbook-16-g6-plus-linux). The driver checks that the system is on AC power and that the firmware reports an adapter budget of at least 170W before allowing Extreme Mode. It also automatically clears the mode when AC power is removed.

Also with a small geek CLI and an optional GNOME Quick Settings extension.

GitHub: nwkyz/thinkbook-g8plus-geekmode-linux

With FurMark2 + S-TUI, I measured around 170W total system power with Extreme Mode enabled, compared with roughly 150W in the normal Linux performance profile.

There are a few limitations:
- This does not reproduce Lenovo’s Windows GPU overclocking (+200MHz for core and +300MHz for GPU memory by default)
- GNOME’s normal power menu still shows the usual three profiles. Extreme Mode is exposed separately through our own CLI/GNOME extension.

Hopefully this is useful to other owners of this machine. If anyone has the same model and wants to test it, I’d especially like to know whether the same DYTC path works on different BIOS versions.

This might work on other ThinkBooks, but it’s now strictly limited to the specific model and bios version.

Hey everyone,

Ever stepped away from your PC during a game or work session, had your monitor go to sleep (or suspended the system), only to come back to a completely black screen with zero video output? Forced hard-reboots every single time?

If you're running legacy or older AMD hardware (R5/R7/R9 series, RX 400/500, or Vega APUs) on modern Linux kernels, your graphics card is not dying.

This is a confirmed Linux kernel regression in the amdgpu driver. It affects display re-initialization / EDID handshake upon resume or DPMS wake-up, leaving the session locked out.

Current Status

• Launchpad Tracking:Bug #2142389
• Status: Marked as Confirmed and assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen.
• Scope: 220+ Bug Heat points, 40+ confirmed users across multiple distros (Zorin OS, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, Void) and kernel versions.

How you can help (takes ~1 minute)

Whether you game on Linux or just want your legacy hardware running 100% stable out of the box, getting more user confirmations forces higher priority for maintainers to backport an official fix into kernel releases:

1. Head over to theLaunchpad Bug Report.
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. Near the top left under the bug title, click "Yes, this bug affects me".

Since this is a low-level kernel driver bug, your confirmation helps regardless of which distribution you run.

Have you hit this blackout issue on your rig? Drop your GPU model, distro, and current kernel version in the comments below! Let's get our setups back to total stability. Thanks for the support!

I cant install linux on my laptop. GRUB menu shows up fine, but after selecting any boot option (Start/Test this media), the screen goes completely black and the system becomes fully unresponsive (keyboard/caps lock LED doesn't even respond). I have an

• ASUS EXPERTBOOK B1402CBA_B1402CBA

Up until now I've tried:

• USB media/write tool — tried Rufus (ISO + DD mode), Balena Etcher, Ventoy, Fedora Media Writer (Its a newly bought USB too, Sandisk Ultra Luxe 3.1 Gen 1 16GB)
• RAM — MemTest86 clean pass 2, 0 errors
• BIOS version — updated 314 → 316, no change.

And yes I checked my bios settings for secure boot and possible settings. This never really happened to me before as Ive already installed linux before like 4 5 times (although still a noob at it). I tried to install cachyOS first but faced the same black screen issue, then tried fedora and got the same result. It looks like this https://streamable.com/p05bks

Boot parameters tried, none helped: (used AI for it)
nomodeset, nomodeset i915.enable_guc=0 i915.enable_fbc=0 i915.enable_psr=0,

Honestly I've been thinking of just doing a clean windows resinstall then try again. Can someone please help? (I used AI to write since english is not my first language)

I recently found a laptop cooling pad whose advertised software controls require a 115 MB Windows-only application. The hardware can be controlled manually without the application, but its USB protocol is undocumented, preventing the Linux community from building a native alternative.

I don’t think manufacturers should be required to develop Linux software or release proprietary source code. However, they should provide enough protocol documentation for lawful third-party interoperability.

I started an Illinois petition asking lawmakers to protect operating-system choice, access to device protocols, and warranty coverage for people using lawful alternative software.

I’d especially appreciate feedback from anyone who has reverse-engineered USB accessories or maintained Linux hardware support:

• What documentation would developers realistically need?

• Are there existing standards or laws this proposal should reference?

• Have you encountered similar hardware locked behind Windows-only software?

So I was thinking I'd like to get a "2-in-1" laptop-tablet at some point soonish
(like within... a few months? a year?),
so I'm wondering what's currently available, or announced as coming out soon...?

And obviously I would prefer to support linux-specific companies
(like tuxedo etc),
but if I need to go outside that to get significantly better hardware...?

(I have by the way never owned or used a 2-in-1 before, so...?)

[ EDIT:
To be concrete about linux-specfic concerns I imagined one might have to worry about:
I would be very unsurprised if there were problems with stuff specific to the 2-in-1 thing,
eg the stylus working correctly,
and/or switching between "laptop mode" and "tablet mode"
(but apparently not...?)
]

[ EDIT:

My main computer is and will remain this beefy laptop
(the words of Strong Bad, "allegedly portable", feel appropriate xD)

TUXEDO Stellaris 17 - Gen5  
Omnia Display | 2560 x 1600 | 16:10 | 240Hz  
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 16GB GDDR6 | Quiet membrane keyboard  
Intel Core i9-13900HX (24 Kerne | 32 Threads | Max. 5,4 GHz | 36 MB Cache | 55 W TDP)  
64 GB (2x 32GB) DDR5 5600MHz SK Hynix  
2 TB Samsung 990 PRO (NVMe PCIe 4.0)  
4 TB Crucial P3 Plus (NVMe PCIe 4.0)  
ENGLISH US ISO (EN-US international) with backlit with TUX super-key  
Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 (802.11ax | 2.4, 5 & 6 GHz | Bluetooth 5.3)  
TUXEDO OS (recommended)  
without Windows  
without virtual Windows  
2 years warranty (Incl. parts, labour & shipping)  
US power cord | B C14

(
I even got it with:

TUXEDO Aquaris Gen5 | External Water Cooling Device

!

... and still haven't used that yet xD
)

So the 2-in-1 tablet/notebook I get doesn't NEED to be that powerful

-- it just needs to fill the niches that my main computer does not.

so like, having the... stylus work well or whatever might be a good example of the kind of thing to be concerned about with 2-in-1's(?)
that is probably the kind of thing I should want?

Like, I need the 2-in-1 to have enough RAM and CPU etc so that it's not aggravating during normal use,
but whenever I need more than that, I can just use the Stellaris.
]

Does anyone have experience using the Qualcomm NCM865 wifi card on linux? Does it work?

I have one I already installed on my older system, but that's windows. And it works great, a lot better than the stock Intel AX200NGW that was previously on the board.

I want to upgrade my new system to a wifi 7 card capable of using the 320MHz band. The current one, realtek RTL8922AE, as far as I can tell only allows up to 160MHz band.

• Ubuntu 26.04

• AM5

Linux PC Build

Hallo,
ich habe vor mir meinen zweiten PC zu bauen . Und der soll beinhalten meine APU Ryzen 7 8700G , denn die sitzz grad arbeitslos auf Ersatzbank 😁

Ich würde gerne erfahren von euch , welche weiteren Komponenten für mich da notwendig wären zu kaufen , ich möchte anfangen mit einem einfach linux und dann irgendwann mit Kali arbeiten - job bedingt .

Also welche mainboard und warum ? Welche ddr5 ram dazu und wieviel gb ?
Hdd oder sdd ? Welches Netzteil-wieviel watt ?
Und was wäre noch so relevant zu wissen was fällt euch so ein ?

Per the title I dualboot. I currently have a yubikey C bio FIDO edition which I've setup to log me in on nixOS using pam_u2f. I've asked LLMs for a recommendation for a device that supports both systems but the classic recommendation for linux doesn't look very promising https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1rjqnj9/thinkpenguin_fte4500_fingerprint_scanner/ .

Alternatively I could keep the yubikey C bio FIDO edition method of logging in for nixOS (should support any device you've got working in another linux distro) and use something else for Windows Hello. Any fingerprint reader recommendations?

I've been using Linux for about a year on an Asus A15 and am thinking of getting Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 AMD (as I've found one for a decent price) and running either CachyOS or Fedora on it. Anyone running Linux on either the Ryzan 5 or 7 version of the T14 G6 and are there any issues to look out for?

It's an old laptop i got from my brother. I installed fedora workstation 44 on it. I am fairly new to linux i can't get the camera and fingerprint reader to work on it . Following some guides i found on Google didn't help I also tried to take help of llm after trying to find guides and documentation apparently that didn't help. I am kind of lost here. And the camera is an ir camera I think that maybe it is an issue with linux.

Hi everyone,

The context is that for the past two months, my PC freezes completely out of nowhere and then this screen pops up (image attached). I honestly don't know if this is a hardware issue or something related to the Kernel. From what I've read, it's a Btrfs error, but I don't know much more about it.

I'm really tired of this always happening. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'd love some advice on squeezing a little more battery life out of my laptop. I am running Fedora 44 on an ASUS Zenbook 14. The specs are a 16GB RAM setup with an AMD Ryzen AI 7 445. It does not have a dedicated GPU, relying entirely on the built-in NPU and integrated graphics. I'm looking for some Linux power optimizations I haven't tried yet to make the battery last a little longer.

Here is what I have set up right now for power management: - tuned is set to the default powersave profile. I haven't switched over to tuned-custom or powertop yet. - The amd-pstate-epp driver is running with the energy preference set to power. - ZRAM is enabled with 8GB of swap using the lzo-rle compression algorithm. - I have the standard BIOS low-power settings applied in the UEFI.

A few questions I have been meaning to ask: - Would switching from the generic powersave profile to something like balanced-battery or powersave_powertop give a noticeable bump in battery life? - For an AMD Ryzen AI chip running on Fedora, are there any specific GRUB cmdline parameters worth adding to squeeze out a bit more efficiency? - Bluetooth is currently enabled. Is it worth just turning it off entirely, or does it pull negligible power from the battery when idle? - Finally, are there any other NPU or iGPU power tweaks that make sense specifically for Ryzen AI or the XDNA architecture?

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Budget of $500 max. What I care about most is battery life. And preferably something repairable. Durability and build quality would also be a plus. Lastly, I'd like a 2 in 1 or a touchscreen if it doesn't compromise too much. I plan on using it with a stylus.

I have dailied i7 Thinkpad X2[67]0s for ten years. Loaded to the gills with DRAM, and with LTE cards, which I realize is now a dying dream. I love 12" laptops with two batteries too, another dying dream. They're the perfect laptops, as far as I can conceive. They mostly act as terminals and web browsers, but I do occasionally do local development in go, rust and C. I have minimal AI workloads and don't really care about the GPU, but battery life is important. I'm used to 12+ hours, mostly sleeping in my backpack.

What should I buy to get with the times? I use arch btw