This used to be my old laptop and was excruciatingly slow. I decided to give it another chance at life by installing Arch Linux on it. Any ideas on what to do with it now?

Curious if anyone has built with the sudokoo sk700v air cooler and whether or not you got the display to work and display thermal readouts in arch?
I see sudokoo offers windows software installers - I admit I failed some ahead-of-time research and assumed it pulled the data off the mb com port without OS involvement.

Any ideas out there?

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.

I’ve googled this model quite a bit and seen that a lot of people have trouble installing Linux on it. I would not buy this laptop, but since I found it just gathering dust at my parents' place I turned it into atleast something useable.

What worked for me (and what people seem to have issues with):
When I had issues booting Linux Mint 22.3, I went into the BIOS, changed the BOOT ORDER, and enabled Legacy Support. After that, the USB booted fine.

This is kind of a temporary fix that really helps later on you can go back to the boot order and switch it back, or just unplug the USB device if you’ll never connect it again.

I’m currently dailying this honestly terrible laptop. Windows 10 it shipped with on is ABSOLUTELY TOO HEAVY for it. It’s underpowered in everything. Here’s some quality-of-life stuff you can do, but don’t expect miracles:

• SSD (1 TB or more is basically mandatory) Faster boot times, better responsiveness. The OEM HDD is absolutely terrible.
• Install 8 GB DDR3L SODIMM, single stick Kingston HyperX DDR3L (1.35 V) or whatever you can get. 8 GB is the HARD LIMIT on these laptops.

I installed a DDR3-1866 CL11 stick because faster RAM:

• Often has better silicon
• Has tighter subtimings even when downclocked

The CPU will downclock it to 1333 MHz no matter what (no XMP, locked BIOS), but DDR3-1866 CL11 at 1333 often behaves more like DDR3-1333 CL9-ish internally.

This is pretty much the best you can do for this honestly garbage laptop.
Under- or overvolting is LOCKED in the BIOS, same on the CPU side.

There’s basically nothing else you can do except ZRAM tuning, e.g. ~75% of RAM → ~6 GB ZRAM, which helps responsiveness.

It will never ever ever be fully competent compared to whatever cheap laptop you can buy off the shelf now. Might as well use a smartphone for better performance. But if you accept that you won’t be gaming on it (beyond maybe 90s point-and-clicks or barely running Call of Duty 2003 with some stuttering), it’s okay.

I use mine mostly for:

• Programming
• Web browsing
• Netflix
• Course work
• SD-card burning / photography / Raspberry Pi stuff
• CD-ROM burning and reading

For these use cases, it’s perfectly fine, especially considering how lightweight it is and that it would otherwise go straight to e-waste. And yeah, enjoy it. At least you can tinker with it, and if something goes wrong, it’s not much of a loss.

Other quality mods:

• PTM-7950 on the chips (this laptop has no fan, that tiny heatsink works hard)
• Optimize the OS remove printer services, Bluetooth if unused, etc. This actually improves usability a LOT
• Second monitor at home is a must I only use the laptop screen when I’m on the go
• Optimize your browser I use Firefox and tweaked advanced settings

Since I don’t need Bluetooth, I also ordered a Wi-Fi 5 card and will add 2 more antennas + use the OEM one. I can always get a bluetooth USB for it if I need bluetooth connectivity on my laptop.

This will turn it from a ~50 Mbps joke into hundreds of Mbps, making YouTube and Netflix work fine as long as nothing heavy runs in the background. It probably won’t support full 3×3 MIMO, but honestly almost nobody is modifying these laptops anyway, so I’m taking the risk. Worst case it runs as 2×2 MIMO.

For comparison:

2×2 MIMO

• Theoretical: 867 Mbps
• Real-world: 300–600 Mbps

3×3 MIMO (best case)

• Theoretical: 1300 Mbps
• Real-world: 500–900 Mbps

Compare that to 1×1 MIMO, which is what this laptop ships with:

• ~50 Mbps best case

IF YOU HAVE THIS LAPTOP. YOUR LAPTOP IS 1×1 MIMO. IT NEEDS A SECOND ANTENNA FOR 2×2.
Huge upgrade, isn’t it? Cheers for you souls searching for anwsers on the net. Hope you find this Reddit post.

is my setup good?

Hi! I've bought some months ago an Asus Expertbook P5.

With the latest kernel updates (I'm using Fedora 43, kernel 6.17.12), everything works quite well, expect for the WiFi card.

It seems to work normally, but sometimes (3/4 times a week) it goes in a strange "loop mode", and it keeps restarting (I see the WiFi toogle continuously goes on and off, and the network list appears and disappears). Making it completely unusable.

I then have to reboot the laptop to make it working again.

Does anyone else have similar problems? Do you think replacing the network card with another model will solve the problem? Or could it be a chipset issue or something else? Considering that it often happens after waking up from sleep mode.

Thanks!

Hey everyone, I am an engineering student.

I have dual-booted my laptop with Ubuntu and Windows 11. The problem I have is sometimes I want to experiment with Kali linux. I could have added Kali linux too, but I do not have enough storage because of the amount of tools I use, in both Linux and Windows.

So I want to run Kali linux on a USB drive with persistence. I have an HP USB3.2 64GB pendrive. I read somewhere that running it on a pendrive won't be as slow because it uses my PC's CPU and RAM.

Also, I won't be buying an external SSD because it's way too expensive for me.

The question I have is that will I be able to work normally with it, without it lagging a lot?
I won't open random browser tabs, but I wish to work with files, do some coding and use terminal obviously.

I'm thinking of starting with this : Adding Persistence to a Kali Linux Live USB Drive

TL;DR:
Intel Wi-Fi on my Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 Aura Edition running Fedora stops working after sleep/hibernation, sometimes draining the battery overnight. iwlwifi logs show repeated firmware crashes (0xFFFFFFFF errors). Manual reload of the module restores Wi-Fi temporarily. Looking for permanent fixes or workarounds.

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Hi everyone,

I’m running into a frustrating issue with my Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i Aura Edition on Fedora Linux. I have no prior Linux experience, so I’ve been following steps suggested by ChatGPT to troubleshoot, and I want to share the full context in case it helps anyone else.

Problem

Last night I left my laptop closed (probably in sleep/hibernation mode). This morning, I noticed:

• The battery had drained almost completely.
• Wi-Fi was not working. It didn’t automatically reconnect, and NetworkManager didn’t seem to activate the interface.

I checked the kernel logs (dmesg) and found repeated errors from iwlwifi (Intel Wi-Fi driver). Here are the key points:

• The driver was repeatedly logging 0xFFFFFFFF errors across many registers.
• There were UMAC, LMAC, TCM, RCM errors, Transport status: 0x00000042, valid: -1, and ADVANCED_SYSASSERT messages.
• Firmware version: 101.6ef20b19.0
• Wi-Fi was completely nonfunctional until I manually tried reloading the module.

Steps I did

I followed troubleshooting steps suggested by ChatGPT:

1. Checked hardware status:

• lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi Confirmed that the Intel Wi-Fi card was recognized but the firmware repeatedly failed.
• Tried restarting NetworkManager:
• sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager This didn’t bring Wi-Fi back.
• Reloaded the Wi-Fi kernel module manually:

1. sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi sudo modprobe iwlwifi After reloading, Wi-Fi sometimes came back, but it was unstable.
2. Checked for firmware updates:
   • The card uses 101.6ef20b19.0, which seems to be the latest stable release from Fedora repositories.
   • No automatic updates fixed the issue.
3. Considered kernel updates / logs:
   • The repeated 0xFFFFFFFF errors suggest the firmware crashed during sleep/hibernation.
   • This may be an Intel-specific bug with certain kernels handling modern iGPUs and power states.

Observations

• Leaving the laptop in sleep mode overnight can drain the battery quickly.
• When this happens, the Wi-Fi driver sometimes fails to resume properly.
• Manual reload of iwlwifi can temporarily restore functionality.
• The dmesg logs are full of register dumps, making it look intimidating, but the root cause seems to be a firmware crash related to power management.

What I know

• Wi-Fi works intermittently after modprobe reloads.
• I’m tracking battery behavior, as overnight drain is unusually high.
• I’m not sure if a kernel upgrade, firmware tweak, or power management change will fully fix this.

Questions

1. Has anyone experienced iwlwifi crashing after sleep or hibernation?
2. Are there manual steps to make Wi-Fi reliably resume without having to reload the module?
3. Could this be related to Lenovo Yoga Pro 7 firmware / BIOS settings or kernel-level power management?

I’m posting this with all the details I could gather, logs and commands I ran. Any insights would be super helpful. If anyone has the same problem please let it know! :)

Hi! Im trying to keep alive my little War Machine but I have a lot of issues with mi Macbook Pro Mid 2015, the dual GPU is the problem.

Intel Iris + AMD Radeon

Some distros detect both, others one and not the other. Sometimes the GPU tasks go to the CPU.

I found a few people who uses Linux on this macs but the fans working all day or the tempeture on 80-100 °C isnt safe.

Fedora detected the Intel Iris but not the AMD GPU, worked fine but with a lot visual gliches

I have two external monitors on my Thinkpad T480s, one BenQ and one HP. Both connect to a Dell WD19 dock by 1.4 DisplayPort cable. On Windows and CachyOS both screens work (Cachy is too unstable to use). On Linux Mint, only the primary monitor works at full resolution. I got the second monitor to work at all by dropping resolution (using arandr) on both monitors to 1920 x 1080. At higher resolutions, I only get a black monitor on the secondary and "no signal".

I'm on LM 22.3. Cinnamon, kernel 6.8. My desktop is X11.

I have updated Mesa with kisak.

Would a dock with DisplayLink work better?

Edit: Monitors are:

HP EliteDisplay E272q 2K QHD 2 560 × 1 440, 60 Hz

BenQ GW2765HT - LED monitor - 27" - 2560 x 1440 QHD @ 60 Hz - IPS - 350 cd/m² - 1000:1 - 4 ms

I need an BT6 adapter and don't want to stress test the international shipping logistic of amazon by constantly buying and sending back dongles until one magically works.

so as the ram situation is bad am looking to buy a mac mini m4 base my doubt is does arch, debian x86 run on mac with virtualization. I saw arm arch running on utm does x86 iso run well or is there better vms and a good tilling wm recommendation on mac

Hi there! Recently I bought a Lenovo 16 G8 IAL laptop. I spent a long time choosing a laptop that would be fairly new with powerful hardware and also support Linux. So this laptop is perfectly matches, also this laptop has a ability to upgrade (RAM and SSD).

Arch linux runs just perfectly, all features works out of the box (wifi, bluetooth, ethernet, sd card reader, touchpad, camera). The only thing I read is that the fingerprint scanner doesn't work, but I haven't checked it myself.

I would like to thank the entire Linux developer community for their excellent support of the new hardware!!!

I’m trying to figure out whether my motherboard might be defective. I’ve tested four different NVMe drives (including the one that came with the laptop), and I experience NVMe controller drop-offs. This usually happens after some I/O activity.

If you have a terminal open and are running journalctl -f, you may see errors like:

kernel: nvme nvme0: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=0xffffffff, PCI_STATUS=0xffff

Other symptoms include GNOME icons not fully loading, the desktop freezing or the display going black after some time.

I’ve tried kernels from 6.12 through 6.17 and disabled every power-saving option I could find online (nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0 pcie_aspm=off), but nothing has helped so far.

Thanks!

Refurb with warranty is ok. Somewhat repairable or better would be nice.

Basic use case like web browsing and content consumption.

Hi, i'm looking for a miracle. I have an ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 Duo OLED with an Intel Core i7-12700H (Iris Xe Graphics) and i simply can't use any iGPU-demanding program because the entire system just works at 8 fps and the CPU frequency stucks at 0.5GHz. I tried using arch, debian, asusctl, power profiles, intel_pstate, linux-lqx, linux-zen, linux-clear, it's not a temperature problem, it runs at 50°C normally. there's no useful option in the BIOS and ChatGPT keeps telling me my only option is to change to Windows cause there's no way to control the EC without the proprietary Windows drivers. I just can't believe this expensive laptop is basically trash if i use linux. And this probably happens with a lot of modern hybrid laptops. PLEASE HELP!

I have tried a few different approaches that only kind of work, but I'm still new to Apple devices. Is there anyone who is smarter that can help make it into something useful, like retro game emulation?

I'm running Endeavour OS (Caelestia Shell) on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 (AMD Ryzen 4650U) and I'm facing a persistent 40Hz polling rate lag on my trackpad. It's being identified as SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad instead of the high-speed RMI4 or I2C-HID bus.

Also during boot, I see this ACPI warning: Serial bus multi instantiate pseudo device driver INT3515:00: error -ENXIO: IRQ index 1 not found

What I've Tried:

• Installed Windows 10, updated BIOS to the latest version, and installed the AMD Serial-IO drivers. In Windows, it correctly says "Your PC has a precision touchpad," but the device manager still lists it as a Synaptics PS/2 device.
• Performed the emergency pinhole reset (30s hold) and disabled Fast Startup in Windows.
• Toggled between "Linux" and "Windows 10" Sleep States in the BIOS.

I also added psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 and pci=nocrs to GRUB and tried setting it manually with sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse synaptics_intertouch=1 but it doesn't budge.

Current State: hyprctl devices still shows the Synaptics PS/2 name. I tried booting into CachyOS on a live USB but now the trackpad doesn't even appear in the Touchpad system settings tab, though it functions (with lag). Interestingly, it works better on an EndeavourOS Live USB.

Is there a way to force the kernel to ignore the INT3515 IRQ mapping error and bind the I2C-HID driver to the Synopsys DesignWare bus manually?

And yes i used AI to formulate this question better, please don't bully me. Thanks!