[GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Jim Ruxton via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
| 
| I'm not so impressed with Lenovo's support of it's Legion laptops. My model
| as well as other Legion models have no speaker output in Linux. The
| headphone jacks work but no sound out of the speakers. I would have thought
| that having sound working was a bare minimum in terms of Linux support. I
| dual boot and sound works fine in Windows. Apparently this problem is being
| worked on and eventually we'll see a fix in a future kernel but it's
| frustrating always having to drag my headphones around.
| Jim

Lenovo tells you in their PSREF documents whether a platform supports
Linux.  In theory, this means that if you try to run Linux on one that
is supposed to support Linux, and it fails, you can get phone support.

As far as I know, Legend laptops are not listed as supporting Linux.

That means: support is Linux's problem, not Lenovo's.

That's not too bad: Linux folks are much better at support than the
folks on Lenovo's support line.  Remember: you may need to be an
active contributor to the solution.

Business computers are conservative.  Usually Linux already supports their 
features.

Other computers are more innovative.  Sometimes it takes a bit of time
for Linux support to show up.

Legend notebooks often have NVidia GPUs.  That's not a great choice
for Linux.  I assume we all know why.

I'm no expert on sound, but I've found "pavucontrol" gives me more
controls.  Maybe you can find a setting there that gets your speakers
working.