Sounds about right. It’s supposed to be some kind of USB button input. But it seems only the audio device part is working.
I tried to detect button input, but it doesn’t seem to go thru in any way. I’m currently using Linux Mint on that (LMDE 7 to be exact). Haven’t tried using other setup.
It doesn’t bother me that much tho. The laptop itself has some standalone volume buttons, so that helps.
My dad gave me a nice audio set including a pair of speakers, a Rotel power amp, and a Rotel amp that I use as a pre-amp.
This thing sounds wonderful. The problem was, I only got a Thinkpad to drive it. Now, Thinkpads may have shitty speakers, but they are by no means bad audio device. That HD audio still does the job well enough for most case.
But this is not most case. For my case, I wanted something more, without shedding the convenience of internet. Sadly, a desktop PC is not an option, due to some constraints.
So I got myself a USB soundblaster. This thing sounds phenomenal! And I only had to plug it in. My only complaint is that the volume knob does not work.
Hopefully Gravity Rush would follow!
I’m using it right now, at least for personal project development. It’s surprisingly reliable. Aside from the well-known USE flags that let you nitpick stuff at compile time letting me mix newer stuff while keeping the rest stable.
I do have my complaints:
I have found sweet spot and preserved my configuration here for anyone to use.
I guess not.
Most default setup would have plymouth. I did spent a moment of frustration on it. That’s why I include this part.
If you don’t think you need it, then just do the first part. If stuff goes wrong, check out my note, then do the second part.
Did the magic smoke come out?
If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.
If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.
While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you’d expect, there are things that may not be covered.
For example:
Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.
How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?
I actually assembled this thing from parts, including the lid. Replacing it is not an option as it is in a very good condition except for that outer layer. I just wanted to see if I can do anything to it.
Thanks for the suggestion, tho.
Good bot.
It would be nice if these scars were actually by me 😅
But yeah I get your point
Definitely an option, but I’d rather not wrap it.
Serious question: you’d use that for your daily driver?
How would Flatpak know which driver to install?
I see. That’s too bad. Thanks!
Could be things to execute. They may run a shell script (source it if they don’t have exec permission), but they won’t have all the previleged commands (definitely no dd)
I currently have a Thinkpad W530 with a Quadro K2000M. Because I have coreboot as its firmware, I am able to run completely on the discrete GPU. So far I’ve been doing great.
I’ve looked on the feature matrix of the nouveau support and my GPU (Kepler) happens to have all the features checked-off, with the exception of dynamic power management (mostly WIP).
Right now, I’m running KDE wayland with the nouveau driver with no issue.
On the other hand, I’ve tried having the hybrid GPU and it sucks.
Don’t get me started.
There are good reasons why I have personal “production system” to do my work with.
Yes, I did set the BIOS GPU config to “discrete only” and now it works.
The link doesn’t seem to work.