[GTALUG] brands matter; Lenovo's brands

[Nicholas Krause]

On 9/19/23 01:44, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | 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 thought NVIDIA have open sourced the drivers outside of userspace for 2000 series and up. The git repo is here:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules. Not sure if which distro your using has the packages for it,
but I would be surprised outside of that if it doesn't work fine for newer GPUs. That's if you install the
driver package for it if it exists.

Or perhaps you have something else in mind,
Nick
> 
> 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.
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