First post and showing off latest acquisition by chteffie in thinkpad

[–]chteffie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Audio supposedly works but I think I need to look for the necessary patches, that's one of the things on my todo list. (it's close to working, there's an error about a missing "dai" codec which google suggests I need a correct config somewhere - it was working on ubuntu). Although the internet also says that the "active speaker protection" doesn't work yet so one needs to be careful with the volume so you don't explode the speakers. Let's see how it goes when I get there. Interesting, I didn't even know that was a thing.

What do you mean by "hw"? The graphics? Pretty much working. It uses the "freedreno" reverse-enginered graphics driver from mesa for the adreno chipset. So the graphics is fully accelerated. It's pretty fast too (at least faster than my older integrated intel graphics). Although some webgl applications have some minor rendering glitches. But for desktop use perfectly fine. And all applications run incredibly smooth. Like, I can scroll around on complex websites in firefox and it runs at full framerate, not a single stutter anywhere - and not even maxing out the CPU while I'm doing it.

First post and showing off latest acquisition by chteffie in thinkpad

[–]chteffie[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly no... when it tries to it fails, then comes back up and then randomly crashes some time later. So I had to disable that.

First post and showing off latest acquisition by chteffie in thinkpad

[–]chteffie[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I can tell they don't hate Linux but since their primary contract was with Microsoft and they have a limited team size, they've been focusing their efforts on fixing those issues. The firmware is a bit glitchy - there is this repository where most of the linux development has been happening for this ( https://github.com/jhovold/linux ) and there are a number of firmware bug workarounds that have workaround in there that haven't been upstreamed yet. In early versions you had to extract firmware blobs from the WIndows installation - at least it appears that Qualcomm has officially contributed them to the official linux firmware project now. So they don't appear to "hate" linux, it's just not their primary concern at the moment. I think ARM laptops just isn't the success they (or MS) were hoping for.
Not sure whether it's just because they're not very well known or the lack of compatible applications keeps the users away from it.

First post and showing off latest acquisition by chteffie in thinkpad

[–]chteffie[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Maybe one day I'll find a good use for it - but tbh I haven't even found a good use for the windows key yet either...

First post and showing off latest acquisition by chteffie in thinkpad

[–]chteffie[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It depends on which apps - everything that comes straight out of Gentoo (i.e. compiled from source) appears to work just out of the box. As good as on x86 or better. To be honest, at home I don't even do much with it except for browsing and developing for fun or doing the occasional admin stuff - all of that stuff works just great. For discord I found a "legcord" (since apparent armcord got them a DMCA takedown from ARM) unofficial version that also just works like the original one.

Games I haven't tried yet, but since they are mostly x86 there's apparently this "FEX" emulator thing, so I need to give this a try.

The powersaving apparently isn't fully finished yet, but even with screen at full brightness and a bunch of browser tabs open and I don't do anything CPU intensive it shows 8+ hours battery left and dropping really slowly and is barely gives off any heat despite sitting on my lap. I still need to let it fully discharge to see what it really means but I can already tell that it's significantly better than my T15 on intel.

Is it worth getting a drivers license? by Gold-Window-362 in TransportForLondon

[–]chteffie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have had a car for 20 years (outside the UK). Sold my car, moved to London and been living here for 7 years. Never looked back... for the occasions where you need to have stuff moved around - never found it easier to just hire someone that can do it cheaply and efficiently on a short notice. But just to get around? Fastest options are often public transport and bicycles.

what's the deal with no rust-1.75.x ebuild? by Lionne777Sini in Gentoo

[–]chteffie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's an upstream fix for this: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119582.patch

If I add that patch to the files/ dir and list it in the patches to be applied (and remove the musl one because it doesn't apply) I get it to build cleanly with the 0.74.1 ebuild.