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Zap fellow linuxers on apple hw

Moved from fedora to slackware, did write a small how to. Was straight forward.

Install, fix wifi, add audio, add touchar, reboot.

All good, no systemd so life is simple now :D

https://inku.bot.nu/posts/slackware-current-macbookpro-2017/

**Works with normal fprintd: enroll, verify, sudo and the lock screen.**

Got the fingerprint reader on my Yoga 9 14IAP7 working on Debian 13. Packaged it up so others can use it too.

It never touches the sensor firmware, and your password still works if the finger fails.
you need the Windows install that came with the laptop, since the sensor's key gets pulled from it once. Steps are in the repo.

https://github.com/fdjfnd222dd/goodix-550c-linux-debian

Thanks to the-great-king-bart for the original reverse engineering. If you have a Yoga 9 14IRP8 feel free to try it out

(screenshots are from demo mode)

I can't get passed a black screen on linux I have an amd ryzen 5 3500, 32gb ram, 1tb nvme ssd, and Intel arc b580

Hi! I would like to build my own data center. Therefore I consider buying an athlon 3000G. I know it s compatible AM4 like every other Apu CPU of the last 3 years and so compatible with series 300, 400, 500 motherboard.

Question is: Does the oldest motherboard need the bios update when I buy them or the constructor is doing it by default now ?

I don't have any other older AMD part to do the update :/

Of if you have an other better idea on what components should I put inside. I try to build it, as inexpensive as possible, to seed , ddl torrent, and share files with my family. And able to stream 4k out of it.

I install Debain [stretch] [mate] [yep], works like a charm.

Issues I had

-1 The temperature sensors didn't want to work properly -or at all I should say. But after a quick google search, all was good.

-2 When first installed wifi doesn't work but you can easily fix it without having to buy a usb to ethernet adapter. I think I just googled it on another machine then transfered the file over & installed like a boss.

-3 Realizing that I am more of a hipster than normal macbook users being that I am using a macbook but am too good to use macos.

& that's pretty it dudes. Have fun.

My pop os school laptop, (which used to be a galaxy book 4) suddenly became really strange, it wouldn't open the password screen and instead it just shut itself off, again and again, and now it opens in a menu selection for new kernel,old kernel and recovery, but none of them open correctly, they go to a gray screen then they reset

after a lot of research i discovered a few things

1. Although none of them open, if i set the boot options on specifically the recovery version to "nomodesit acpi_osi=windows init=/bin/bash" it opens a text version

2. The battery and storage seem fine since the laptop can still measure battery amount and it can still access the storage, that's how i managed to back up the important college files

3. The issue seems to be pop os itself, as any version of it will not open at all, I even tried the USB boot menu and it still reset itself.

But then I tried to use a endeavourOS USB and without any tinkering it booted

1. Even though it can measure the battery, anytime I disconnect the charger from the laptop it shuts down, not even the power indicator turns on even after holding the button for a minute straight

2. I went to a repair guy and asked him to unplug the wire connecting the battery to the rest of the system than reconnect it after 2m 30s and that seems to have done nothing at all

3. When I tried to download endeavourOS it gave me a pacman error before it even got to wiping the laptop

And even now I still have no idea what pop os did to my machine to make it unable to be turned on without the battery, can anyone help?

I have a 2019 16" MacBook Pro with 64 gigs of RAM, Core i9-9980HK (8 cores/16threads) a 512 SSD, and a Radeon 5600 with 8 gigs of VRAM. When I bought it in early 2020, it was a screaming demon. And now macOS just sucks on it. Has anyone gotten Omarchy to run on this? Has an Apple T2 chip.

I keep getting drawn into the allure of Omarchy and it has left me wanton. My user experience was so bad on my MBP I pulled out my old Thinkpad T450s with Fedora KDE and have been using that as my on the go computer.

Last spring I bought an HP OmniBook 5 (Snapdragon X Plus, 32 GB) for $650 and tried to get native Linux running on it. I was living in my 2013 Civic at the time, coding in parking lots.

I logged more than 1000 reboots. Some things came up, but every step meant fighting closed firmware and missing drivers. Eventually money ran out, and I had to sell the laptop.

What stuck with me: I wasn't fighting Linux, I was fighting hardware I couldn't see inside. So I flipped it. Now I'm building a 16" laptop around a NanoPi M6 (RK3588), where the parts are documented.

So far:

• designed my own DSI→eDP bridge board, and it drives a real 16" laptop panel
• the display and the SBC run straight off a 4S6P 21700 pack (no 12V converter anymore)
• keyboard + touchpad board is designed, next to order

Everything is open source. Question for people here: if you wanted a Linux laptop you could actually repair and understand, would you go ARM SBC like this, or stick with x86 (Framework, ThinkPad)?

Full story and board files, if anyone's curious: tagoslabs.com/story

Looking for a laptop mostly for light gaming. target is WoW Forever running smoothly, and then some.

• Country

Germany/EU

• Budget

around up to 1000€

Currently eyeing 3 specific laptops for this:

Lenovo LOQ 15ARP10E for 1047€

Lenovo LOQ 15AHP9 for 979€

HP Victus 15-fa2701ng for 899€

and im honestly a bit lost. from my very limited understanding, the 15AHP9 looks a bit better, but is also cheaper. ive heard some great things about Lenovo LOQ, however some not so great things about the "Essentials" variant. Which would you pick?

I'm running Linux on Assus ZenBook S14 (Lunar Lake, Intel Ultra 7 258V CPU, integrated graphics, 3k OLED panel).

I'm curious if there are any known issues with Asus specifically and my chipset in particular - I have not noticed any issues, running 4 days only. So far - longer battery, much cooler and much more responsive system. What am I missing besides obvious OLED care? BIOS updated to the latest version.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your time!

Title. I've been using an RTX 2070 for years now but I'm starting to run into VRAM degradation & crashing so I've been looking into upgrading some parts of my system. I've been using the proprietary drivers pretty much since they came out and I've never really had any issues so I was just going to buy whatever is cheapest when I have the scratch. I wanted to reach out and ask if comparability is still an issue?

Basically, is limiting myself to AMD cards worth the (potential) extra cost?

^{Edit: Fixed a giant run-on sentence I somehow didn't notice}

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a frustrating suspend/resume issue with my ASUS Zenbook S 14 running Arch Linux.

System:

• Laptop: ASUS Zenbook S 14 UX5406SA
• CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (Lunar Lake)
• GPU: Intel Arc (Xe driver)
• OS: Arch Linux, KDE Plasma (Wayland)
• Suspend: s2idle
• Power management: TLP

The problem:

After suspending my laptop for several hours, waking it up causes the entire system to become extremely sluggish. The mouse lags, applications respond slowly, and everything feels almost frozen.

This lasts around 3–4 minutes, after which performance returns to normal.

What I've tried:

Adding intel_idle.max_cstate=2 to my kernel parameters completely fixes the issue.

However, this significantly increases battery drain during s2idle, so it's not a practical long-term solution.

Without this parameter, battery consumption during suspend is much better, but the sluggishness returns.

I found a potentially related issue involving CPU throttling after resume:

https://github.com/dantmnf/zenbook-s14-ux5406sa-linux/issues/11

Has anyone experienced this on Lunar Lake laptops? Is there a fix that preserves low suspend power consumption without restricting CPU C-states?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I just glommed onto the last of the PowerPC Mac marketted, on eBay. I'm sure it'll need a lot of work just to make it functional, such as rebuilding the liquid cooler without a coolant that's corrosive.

It's actually the first Mac to come with PCIe, which uniquely positions it in computing history.

But I want to integrate it into my existing computing infrastructure, which requires a SAS HBA and a SFP network adapter.

These Macs came with four PCIe gen1 slots. All x16 physical. The bottom is x16 electrical, and is occupied with an Nvidia GeForce 6600 GPU with two DVI ports. The remaining slots, from bottom to top, are x8 (2 GB/s) and two(2) x4 (1 GB/s). The hard drive subsystem is also SATA 1 (150 MB/s). It comes with (I think) the original 250 GB hard drive.

There's a FibreChannel card available from Apple, but I don't use FC. I use SAS. I prefer 12 Gbps SAS-3, which the gen1 x8 slot could technicly do, but where would I find a SAS3/PCIe1 card that the PowerPC OpenFirmware system could talk to?

Likewise, I prefer 10 Gbps fiber ethernet in my network, but the remaining slots top out at 8 Gbps. But, if there's a SFP ethernet PCIe card out there that can auto-downshift to gen1 speed, I'll take it, but again, there's the question of PowerPC OpenFirmware compatibility.

Anyone have any advice on this wild goose chase I've started?

If I have to settle for SAS2 (6 Gbps) and/or 5Gbps Ethernet, I'll not be complaining, but I don't know this platform's quirks with regard to PCIe card compatibility.

I9 64GB ram, it runs my local LLM ;)

Been driving the ASUS ProArt 14 with the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X on Arch Linux ARM and honestly… it's great. Everything works and it's snappy.

- Touchpad, trouchscreen, wifi, sound, Wayland/GNOME all good, ran vllm with 2b, 4b models and nvfp4 also.
- Steam works through FEX (x86 emulation, the same tech Valve uses on the Steam Frame). Took an evening of tinkering, but the client runs fine and x86 games get the real NVIDIA GPU.-Tested BG3 realy quickly wirh DLSS.

Thanks NVIDIA and ASUS now I have a dreamy laptop for both work and gaming. Now I have to get the 16" one 😅 to run my work stuff.

Here is repo with all stuff (use on your own :

https://github.com/mikivolek/archlinuxarm-proart-p14/tree/main (cudos to pfeifferj).

One catch: the laptop needs patched ACPI tables to run Linux properly. Those tables are ASUS/NVIDIA firmware and can't legally be redistributed, so nobody can hand you a ready-made fix. You have to dump the tables from your own laptop and patch them locally (the project has scripts and a guide for it). It takes about 15 minutes, once.

--- small updsate Oct 26 6:05PM

After comming home from work I fixed a build bug in FEX's Vulkan thunks, so games now talk straight to the native ARM NVIDIA driver instead of an emulated x86 one. Only the game code is emulated now, the GPU side runs native, and it shows. HDR works too, desktop and BG3. GNOME didn't detect the OLED as HDR because the panel only reports it in a newer EDID format, so I patched the library that reads it. Games then needed GE-Proton10 with Wine's Wayland driver, plus a few fixes to FEX's Wayland thunk so it could run natively. BG3 now outputs real HDR10 on the OLED.

Are there any Reports/Experiences if the Touchbar works under Linux on the MacBook 13" (2020)?

Hey everyone!

I have a 2017 MacBook with the following specifications:

Processor: 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5

RAM: 8 GB DDR3 (1600 MHz)

Storage: 121 GB total, with around 100 GB available

I wanna become a SOC analyst and hence I want to start learning skills on linux. I'm confused which linux should i use that'll be best for my MacBook. I asked chat gpt and it said I won't be able to run heavy labs on it so I want your help knowing whether it's right and if it's right then what should I do??

I’ve been working on LogiOptions, an independent Linux app inspired by Logitech Options+.

It started because I wanted to use my MX Master 4 and MX Keys for Business on Linux without giving up their settings. It now has mouse DPI, scrolling and SmartShift controls, adjustable haptic feedback, keyboard function-key and backlight settings, and an experimental Actions Ring with per-app shortcuts.

The tray and background service start at login, so the Actions Ring works with the settings window closed. The project grew from studying the official macOS app and testing direct HID++ communication with my devices over Bolt.

This is an experimental release. Support currently targets these two devices on Ubuntu 26.04 (amd64), with GNOME 50. Broader device support, Flow, macros and full Options+ parity are still unfinished. New global button shortcut assignments still need an end-to-end physical mouse test.

GitHub: https://github.com/enriquemorenotent/logioptions-linux

Install with automatic updates:

curl -fsSL https://enriquemorenotent.github.io/logioptions-linux/install.sh | sudo bash

You can review the installer in the repository first. After first-time installation, log out of Ubuntu and back in to load the Actions Ring extension.

The screenshot shows example button assignments. The application code is GPLv3; the device artwork and fonts are Logitech assets with separate terms. This is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Logitech.

I’d love feedback from other MX Master 4 and MX Keys users on Linux!