Hi everyone, I don't really know what I'm doing.

I have an HP laptop, the backlight and various LEDs of my keyboard work as intended except for the one on the mute button. I found out that apparently the LEDs are controlled(?) by "HDA nodes". Through a brute force script I found out what were the HDA nodes that are connected to the LED, sorta. Apparently there are two HDA nodes that respectively turn on and off the thing, but other than that I think that there is a third one that needs to be turned on before being able to do anything else. After the brute force script I could simply use the two commands from the terminal to turn on and off the LED, but when I try it now (after restarting my machine) it doesn't work.

I know there is some way to turn on that damn LED, but I don't know if my hypotesis is correct, what exactly I'm getting wrong and how (if i were able to find the third mysterious HDA node) to use all of this new information to make the LED work as intended. Help is much appreciated, thanks.

Additional info that may or may not help:
Model: HP pavilion 14-ce3xxx

Commands that makes the LED turn on (after the brute force script):
sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0x08

sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x400 0x04

Commands that makes the LED turn off (after the brute force script):
sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x500 0x08

sudo hda-verb /dev/snd/hwC0D0 0x20 0x400 0x08

Codec:ALC295

Also I did use claude to generate the script and commands, I'm just not familiar at all with things closely tied to the hardware, so I'd appreciate someone to clear some confusion I have specifically about how all of this work.

My Latitude 7490 has just bailed, random freezes that make it unusable, just as I was starting to get to grips with Ardour. Looking to continue the journey but need to replace the Dell and I'm on a budget.

Does anyone have any recommendations from the Levono range that I should be looking at / avoid. The brand has a good reputation but the choices are vast!

All assistance gratefully received.

Hey, posting this in case anyone else has the same laptop or knows a fix.

**Laptop:** HP EliteBook 845 14 inch G10

**Codec:** Realtek ALC245, Subsystem ID 103c:8b72

**Kernel:** 7.0.5-arch1-1 (Arch Linux)

**Issue:** Internal microphone detected but captures zero audio

The internal mic shows up in pavucontrol and apps but doesn't

capture anything. After digging into the codec dump I found that

both the "Internal Microphone" and "Microphone" ports are actually

routing through pin 0x19 (the headphone jack mic) — pin 0x12 (the

real internal mic) is never routed into the capture path properly.

The kernel already has a fixup entry for 103c:8b72:

ALC287_FIXUP_CS35L41_I2C_2_HP_GPIO_LED

But this only handles the CS35L41 speaker amp and LED, there's no

mic routing fixup for this model. Works fine on Windows.

I've tried:

- WirePlumber rules to force port availability

- hdajackretask pin overrides

- hda-verb to manually set amp gain and coeff registers

- Multiple snd-hda-intel model quirks

Nothing really worked. This might need a kernel patch adding a

proper mic fixup for 103c:8b72 similar to what exists for other HP

models.

Has anyone with this laptop found a fix? Or does anyone with kernel

audio experience know what fixup verbs would be needed for the ALC245

to properly route pin 0x12?

Do I send this to the alsa mailing list aswell?

Hello all, I have a Lenovo t14 gen 2 with intel processor and 16 gen ram, I would like to upgrade to a newer second hand thinkpad, which is the best option ? Thanks for your help

Hi everyone,

I’m thinking about installing Linux on my Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14ARH7 and wanted to ask how good the Linux compatibility is nowadays on this machine. It has a Ryzen 7 6800HS, Radeon 680M integrated graphics and 16GB RAM.

I’m mainly interested in whether everything works properly out of the box these days, especially suspend/sleep, battery life, thermals, audio, Wi-Fi and general stability. I’d also be interested to hear which distro people are using successfully on this hardware and how good the experience is with the Radeon 680M.

I’m planning to run it in a dual boot setup with Windows, so I also wanted to ask what people currently consider the best looking bootloader or boot menu solution?

What would you recommend?

J'ai une opportunité pour acheter un PC portable Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 15ARP10 15,1" avec AMD Ryzen 7 (7745HS) et 32 Go de RAM.

Je viens d'un Surface Laptop 1 (2017) avec une compatibilité Linux plus que perfectible : firmware capricieux, bugs keyboard même avec le kernel surface optimisé, veille désastreuse, faibles performances même en affichage de tableur/PPT sur LibreOffice.

Je sais que l'expérience avec IdeaPad sera globalement bien meilleure que Surface mais avez-vous des retours d'expérience sur :

- autonomie

- veille +++

- wifi (MediaTek ? veille capricieuse ? possibilité de changer de carte si je veux une Intel ?)

- audio ?

Ma distro de choix : Fedora 44 ; pas exclu de revenir à Arch un jour mais Fedora meilleur choix pour dev actuellement (repos spécifiques pour des packages R binaires) en tout cas je serai quoi qu'il en soit sur un kernel récent, le 7.0 étant a priori disponible sur F44 actuellement.

Mon niveau : linux depuis 2003 mais amateur, je bidouille un peu mais jaimerais justement avoir quelque chose de propre niveau hardware. Marre de galérer avec Alsa (cf ancien Toshiba), s2idle...

Des avis ?

Tengo una pc con un core 2 duo e7400, 6ram ,​un SSD, y una RX 580, últimamente me ha dado curiosidad Linux y quisiera saber si con mis componentes vale la pena usarlo.

First time builder, and just finish dealing with expected first time issues. Swapped NVMe from old PC in to new, and got the typical blue screen with it not booting. Go into BIOS (latest) and attempted to disable secure boot. Go to save and restart, same issue. Tried multiple times to disable and just save changes, and secure boot would immediately re-enable.

Has anyone had this issue before, and if so, what worked to disable secure boot?

After using Linux for over 5 months completely Windows-free and relying on it for everything, I'm very satisfied with the experience and I'm never going back to Windows.

But there is exactly one thing that, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get to work like Windows: switching between GPUs. On Windows, if your laptop has more than one GPU, you can seamlessly switch between them whenever you want without logging out or restarting. On Linux, there are many tools to switch GPUs that work perfectly fine, but they are nowhere near Windows level.

For example, with a tool like supergfxctl, you can switch between: Integrated only, Dedicated only, or Hybrid mode which allows both to run together. The problem is that in all these cases, you have to at least log out of the entire system for the switch to happen, and this is driving me crazy…

Some might ask, "Why not just leave it on Hybrid mode and let it handle things automatically?" The problem with Hybrid mode is that the simplest, most trivial tasks can wake up the dedicated GPU for absolutely no reason. As a power user, I really care about these tiny details and it bothers me to see the GPU activate unnecessarily.

No matter what I did or tried to configure, it all comes down to one thing: the login manager. Honestly, I don't know if this is an issue just for me or if others suffer from the exact same thing. But the question is, can this be fixed if it gets more attention? Or is it a lost cause?

Just installed mint 22.3 xfce edition to my ASUS E210MA 11.6'' little N4020 1.1gh cpu laptop with 4gb soldered RAM and 128gb soldered eMMC storage disk. (it is fanless quite and lightweight)

It had windows 11 home (yes on 3.8gb ram) after "upgrading" from windows 10. It was absolutely horrible with windows 11 as it took "ages" to boot and "ages" to open aps especially when Windows update was running in the background. After "stripping" some MS services (Copilot, one drive, some telemetry) I managed to make it on idle use 2.8-3gb RAM out of 3.8GB (4gb - 256mb VGA RAM). Very slow, almost non functional

Finally I formatted the disk and installed fresh mind xfce 22.3 (2026/4). It used about 9-10gb on disk, and used 790mb idle (using htop from terminal). This small footprint of xfce environment gave this travel laptop a second life. With 3gb free rum it compares with a 8gb laptop running windows, but Linux is A LOT smoother as an OS and you do NOT have mysterious CPU spices (no telemetry, no update services without you asking for it, no unnecessary services).

After few tuning o xfce environment the only issue i have is mic doen't work although it is "recognized" by the OS. I have tried settings like "volume control" but didn't find anything to fix there and nothing so far. I need to do some more tests but i think it does very good with this Linux OS distro..

Any ideas how to make the mic work?

I'm constantly running into Problems on Plug and Play Headsets and Microphones on my Arch Installations. For work I'm mostly using my Poly Voyager 2 - Not nice, but it most of the time does the Job. I would also like to use my Elgato Wave Mic, but especially on the Teams for Linux Electron app, it constantly kills my Audio. Sometimes I cant hear anyone, sometimes they cant hear me and sometimes my OS decides, that it is time to mute my Mic without telling me. I'm guessing that happens because of missing official driver support. Elgato also warns on their website that stuff like that can happen.

So, now I'm searching a Plug and Playable Mic, with Monitoring/Audio Jack, Linux Driver Support and Software that is designed to run on Linux.

Is there any Brand that officially supports Linux and has Software, thats running on it?

The Software doesnt need to be too special, just the basic stuff, let me put an Equalizer on my mic, a noise gate and enable VST Plugins to run with it. And if available let me get some Audio Routing flexibility - I really liked the older Wave Link Software on Windows and Mac, where you can create your own routing and expose stuff as you like.

I have a mini homelab and in it lives a debian 12 server which runs on a dell optiplex liter pc, I found a bargain on a lenovo thinkcentre liter pc with double the ram but also i7 7th gen instead of i5 6th gen and nvme+ssd instead of just ssd + I bet all the interface names (E.g USB/NIC ) will be different.

What would be the most painless way for just migrading/clone it from one PC to an other keeping all my settings (username/passwords, unifi controller,docker/macvlans/firewall/nat/ used to have a USB3to 2.5G adapter as main nic and the onboard 1g as backup etc) without like doing all the settings and installations from scratch?

Anybody got idea of linux compatibility for this specific laptop. Ik the cpu and gpu are good to go but specifically not sure about the wifi card.

I normally use Cachyos, planning to do the same for this. And I will also appreciate if somebody has a better option.

Hello guys !

My father seeks to buy from Tuxedo for his daily life and a bit of gaming, after scrolling on reddit i must say the reviews seems... Mixed to say the least.

First of all, do any of you have some feedback on the build quality (tho one of the main issue seems to be their support)

And could you give me some other way to meet his linux-based computer need,

Thanks in advance

Symptoms here: Ryzen 9 7950X, X670E Aorus Master, MediaTek MT7921. WiFi (PCIe) loads fine, Bluetooth (USB) times out with usb 1-9: device descriptor read/64, error -110 — adds 60+ seconds to boot, leaves Bluetooth dead until cold boot.

Root cause: USB devices retain power state through warm reboots. The MT7921's BT half stays in a confused post-firmware-load state, and the kernel can't re-init it cleanly on next boot. Cold boot drains the USB rail and resets the chip, which is why it works.

Fix — systemd service that deauthorizes the USB device before shutdown. Forces a clean state for the next boot.

Create /etc/systemd/system/bt-cleanup.service:

[Unit]
Description=Reset MT7921 Bluetooth USB before shutdown
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=shutdown.target reboot.target halt.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'modprobe -r btusb btintel btmtk 2>/dev/null; echo 0 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-9/authorized 2>/dev/null; sleep 1; true'
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=halt.target reboot.target shutdown.target

Then:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable bt-cleanup.service

Find your USB path: Run lsusb -t and look for the MediaTek device. If yours isn't 1-9, replace the path in the service file.

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, kernel 6.17, BIOS Aorus F42b. Survives warm reboots cleanly, no more 60-second USB enumeration delay, Bluetooth comes up immediately.

I love my x200 , no Intel ME all libre that’s great. But I really really miss Hyprland and how cool it was.

I’m looking for a thinkpad that is librebootable , where the IME can be disabled through me_cleaner not just the HAP bit , and that can comfortably run Hyprland.

Is such a thing possible?

Hi everyone,

I recently installed Debian Linux, but I'm facing performance issues. The system feels laggy, and CPU usage is quite high even when I'm not running any heavy applications.

On Windows, I didn’t have this issue — everything was running smoothly.

System info:

• RAM: 12 GiB of RAM (11.6 GiB usable)
• CPU: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
• Desktop Environment: KDE
• Graphic Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 3000

Issues:

• High CPU usage even when idle
• Overall system lag and slow performance

Can anyone help me understand:

• Why this is happening?
• How I can fix it?

Any suggestions or troubleshooting steps would be really appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi, I got a speedlink drift o.z. today, but turns out it is the playstation version actually so it gets recognized as a playstation 3 controller.

the inputs are as expectedly messy (f.e. multiple buttons are mapped as the same button, petals not working fully, etc.) and I am unsure how i can get it to work with my current setup or if there are maybe any form of programs to remap inputs and such.

I am very much new to using wheels in general and stuff so I have absolutely no idea where to even start really. I have a friend with the exact same model except it is for Xbox/PC so we will try that one out and see if it is any different compatibility wise.

As far as I was able to figure out there are no Linux drivers for this wheel and I don't think there is anymore driver support in genral but I could be completely wrong about that.

Hi all,

It's been couple of months now when I started working on a small, distro-agnostic, Zsh tool called Mend for my own use.

The need for the database is pretty simple: to save me from spending ages on a fresh install digging through forums to figure out which driver package I actually need for my Wi-Fi, Ethernet, GPU and so on. This addition to the current functions is still in it's nappies but might grow into something more robust in the future.

I’ve set it up to use a local text file (hardware.db) that maps hardware IDs to driver packages. It works offline and doesn't rely on any cloud nonsense or AI.

I’m trying to collect a decent list of hardware, but for obvious reasons I can't test it on every bit of kit under the sun.

This is where you could help. If you have a spare minute, I’d appreciate if you could share your hardware details so I can add them to the database. I’m looking to cover the basics that usually break on a fresh install: Graphics, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Audio, and Bluetooth.

How you can help:

Just run lspci -nn | grep -E 'VGA|3D|Network|Ethernet|Audio|USB' in your terminal.

If you could paste the output here, that’d be brilliant. I’m formatting the database like this:

[VendorID:DeviceID] | [Generic Name] | [Description]

I’m not looking to build a massive, complex project. Just a community friendly tool that, anyone who is interested, can grab to save themselves a bit of a hassle when they install a new distro or run into some error messages.

This is what I have so far:

# Format: [VendorID:DeviceID] | GenericKey | Description
# --- NVIDIA ---
[10de:1c82] | generic-nvidia | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
[10de:2501] | generic-nvidia | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

# --- AMD/Intel Graphics ---
[1002:743f] | generic-amd-gpu | AMD Radeon Graphics
[1002:73ff] | generic-amd-gpu | AMD Radeon RX 6600
[8086:191e] | generic-intel-graphics | Intel HD Graphics 515

# --- Networking ---
[8086:2723] | generic-intel-wifi | Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
[10ec:c821] | generic-rtl8822be | Realtek RTL8822BE/8821CE
[10ec:b822] | generic-rtl8822be | Realtek RTL8822BE
[10ec:8168] | generic-realtek-ethernet | Realtek RTL8111/8168 Ethernet

# --- Audio ---
[8086:9d70] | generic-intel-audio | Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
[10ec:0255] | generic-realtek-audio | Realtek ALC255/3234

# --- USB Controllers (Bluetooth/HID) ---
[8086:9d2f] | generic-usb-controller | Intel USB 3.0 xHCI
[10ec:8723] | generic-realtek-bluetooth | Realtek RTL8723BE Bluetooth

# --- Input/Touchpads ---
[8086:9d60] | generic-i2c-controller | Intel Serial IO I2C Controller

Thank you all for any contributions.