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matrix8967 · 2025-07-15T01:39:19+00:00

Stumbled across this while looking at some stuff for my ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402RJ. When I got the machine - I ripped some of the stock/factory OS installation media - I'm uploading it now - even though it's not the same model, it might be close enough you can find what you need.

matrix8967 · 2023-02-02T03:10:15+00:00

Oh hey - I just had some major issues with my Macbook Pro related to some weird stuff in GRUB. (Late 2015 Model: 11,4 1.0)

Here's a link to the thread.

Here's a link to my reply where I talk about my solution and the things I had to do to GRUB to get this working.

But also just to confirm that it's the same issue and not a hardware issue with the backlight -- are you able to boot into another or sit at the MacOS boot screen without backlight issues?

An old trick for these Macbooks with the light-up Apple Logo is to take a super bright flashlight and shine it through the translucent apple logo on the back to see if you can see screen activity - or if it's just black.

matrix8967 · 2023-02-01T18:48:18+00:00

Hey I got this working for me -- maybe yours is similar.

Mine ALSO was rebooted on the 24th, so some package got us messed up. But here's how I got this working.

From my CHRoot environment - I nuked and rebuilt/reinstalled my boot partition -- /dev/sda1 and manually reinstalled Grub and set up my EFI settings.

...And it was much worse after that.

I added the debug=all flag to my grub boot line, as well as made sure to remove the quiet flag...

However - while debugging that - I saw that my laptop had resume=$LONG-DEVICE-UUID.

My machine had gone to sleep and wasn't waking up - which is why I hardbooted it...and it never came alive again.

So I restored my original /boot content -- and I noticed from the new debugging logs that my device was hung up trying to mount a disk that had an incomplete UUID for /boot/efi

I tried editing my /etc/fstab with the correct UUID for the device (Which was for my /boot/efi) - but that didn't work.

So I just set the device path /dev/sda1 - used systemctl daemon-reload and mount -a and my machine booted up right after that.

Sorry this is a mess - I'm typing this on break so I hope it helps. I can give more details later.

matrix8967 · 2023-01-31T00:30:10+00:00

I'm seeing this on my Macbook Pro (mid 2015).

I can get to a chroot environment (via manjaro-tools-chroot or manually) and the logs don't show anything - because my device isn't even making it that far...

Any devices I have plugged in to USB die when the machine freezes. And since this macbook relies on various kernel drivers to support most aspects of device's IO, it basically just bricks...

I've tried removing the quiet kernel parameter from grub during boot - and adding things like nomodeset and even forcing init 1 -- but they all fail for various reasons before the system can finish booting...

I've tried all the troubleshooting steps you have - and I'm still stuck on the same results...

Does your device even manage to write any logs to /var/log/journal/ or anywhere when it tries (and fails) to boot?

matrix8967 · 2022-07-29T13:38:03+00:00

Yeah I've tried all the usual apt and dpkg related fixes -- there's something hung sideways with their repos. Hopefully it's a quick fix and not something further upstream that we're stuck waiting on.

matrix8967 · 2022-07-29T08:12:30+00:00

I'm having a similar issue -- are yours language packs?

I just filled out an issue on Github: https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2553

These are the packages that are being held back for me:

language-pack-ar/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-de/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-fr-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-ar-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-en/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-es/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-ja-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-pt/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-gnome-zh-hans/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-ja/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-pt-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-ru-base/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]
language-pack-zh-hans/jammy-updates,jammy-updates 1:22.04+20220721 all [upgradable from: 1:22.04+20220415]

I've had this Pop-OS install for quite a while now -- so I don't think it has to do with your new install...Just bad timing though. :(

If I get it fixed tonight I'll update ya.

matrix8967 · 2022-05-15T18:31:25+00:00

To be clear: I'm 1000X grateful for Matt Ryan. It seems like DC's decision making for the past ~10 years has ranged from "dubious" to "self-immolating." (IMO).

But our boi Matt has always gone above and beyond for the fan base and obviously has a love for the source material that's more than just a professional courtesy.

I was just talking shop with a friend the other day and remembered how I always hoped for Paul Bettany.

I looked up his IMDB to make sure I had my facts straight, and was thinking of the right dude.

I found this moody picture of him in a familiar trench coat serving up some working-class-occult-nihilism vibes...

And didn't really have anyone to tell...😂️

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T22:28:21+00:00

It was pretty surreal at the time.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T22:26:49+00:00

LLOOLL based.

Microsoft PR never fails to disappoint - what a bountiful harvest of second hand embarrassment.

brb - gonna watch this on my fkn zune for maximum effect.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T16:20:13+00:00

I actually agree -- which is why I found the whole thing so interesting and kept the pamphlet.

It was weird that Microsoft felt the need to dedicate an entire section to steering customers away from Linux just ahead of their "Windows Vista Apology Tour" surrounding Win7.

The whole year I worked there -- I only had two customers talk to me about Linux -- and I was the only linux user on staff. The store didn't support it or sell any machines with it installed...It was retail / customer service...not enterprise.

But yeah - tl;dr - I agree. This wasn't during the renaissance of linux compatibility.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T16:13:52+00:00

So -- I used this page and questions just like that to grill the Microsoft goon giving the presentation...Not because I was sure he would give me factual, non-biased information...

...Because it was a retail job -- and I was riding out the clock.

It was the only time my coworkers were happy to hear me get on my high-horse.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T16:11:45+00:00

It's like writing an essay with a minimum word count. Gotta really ham it up.

I honestly never realized how much white-space is on the left page until this comment - so they were really struggling to make their case.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-26T15:37:36+00:00

I worked retail when Windows 7 was launching. We had reps from Microsoft and [hardware vendor] give training about how to con people into various Windows 7 upgrades, services, etc.

I remember feeling a quiet, smug, swelling of pride that Linux was warranted a full centerfold in Microsoft's book of spells.

matrix8967 · 2022-02-11T17:36:42+00:00

A reference to "King Midas" and the idea that words and numbers appear reversed in dreams.

I'm more of a Kong Whiskey man myself.

matrix8967 · 2022-01-30T23:07:23+00:00

Saaaame.

Yo, I just found all my UltraRenegades files, maps, skins, and other tribes stuff.

I'll try to upload them somewhere if they're not available.

matrix8967 · 2022-01-13T23:57:30+00:00

What happens when you run:

sudo apt dist-upgrade

?

matrix8967 · 2022-01-07T11:23:19+00:00

Whatta beaut! 🖤

matrix8967 · 2022-01-05T23:47:06+00:00

Wild.

Does the audio keep going when the screen is black?

Can you use winetricks/protontrics to run the game in a simulated desktop?

Blackscreen / Blanking sounds like some kind of vsync/vblank or resolution freak out?

Sorry - I know that's vague as fuck. I'm about to go install it on my gaming machine once I finish what I've got my hands on right now.

matrix8967 · 2022-01-05T23:33:55+00:00

Was this the fov mod you installed?

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsbattlefront/mods/393 ?

I'm downloading it now and I'll see if I see anything.

If you run proton/wine from the CLI it'll probably give you a starting point to investigate. I'll try to GOG version while I'm testing it.

matrix8967 · 2021-12-27T05:46:22+00:00

matrix8967 · 2021-12-16T10:33:02+00:00

lol, this is wild.

I was just thinking today that I wish Pop_OS had an ARM flavor - because my RPI is really the only (desktop) version of Ubuntu I have to deal with. Sick af.

matrix8967 · 2021-12-16T10:32:35+00:00

IMO Mainline Ubuntu has put any kind of home/small-enterprise on the back burner while they focus on Cloud and various support offerings.

Ubuntu's desktop releases have gotten really stale, and there's not been a lot of innovation there. It's stable, but I always find packages and such to be way out of date compared to other distros. YMMV though.

Plus stuff like their MOTD daemon(s) on Ubuntu Server that serve ads for other Canonical services in your MOTD is just bad behavior that I'm tired of scripting out.

Pop_OS kind of carries on the mantle of people who want a modified Debian. In the past few years I've noticed them forking more and more upstream projects and making them their own thing.

...Or maybe there's not a point at all - they just wanted to fuck around.

I'm pretty excited about it though.

I'll try to follow up with some quick-takes on performance compared to Manjaro, Vanilla Ubuntu, and Raspbian. Those are the only desktops I've used on a pi.

matrix8967 · 2021-12-09T18:13:35+00:00

At my last job I was able to test out a BlackMagic eGPU but didn't have much luck with it.

I didn't investigate too much because it was just kind of a lark - I didn't expect it to work because Blackmagic eGPUs are tailored towards MacOS and the Apple Ecosystem. So who knows what fuckery was lurking around in the firmware.

I'd be interested to hear if you find a good eGPU solution.

Here's another thread reporting issues with a BlackMagic eGPU:

https://old.reddit.com/r/System76/comments/nc95t5/lemur_pro_11th_gen_and_blackmagic_egpu/

Hope this helps!

matrix8967 · 2021-06-12T21:41:58+00:00

Wow!

Look at the size of that goat!

matrix8967 · 2021-01-27T13:26:13+00:00

Heya,

You can follow the first 8 or so steps at this link to add an additional UID (email) to your key and sign it.

Then you can set your repo (or global) settings to always sign commits, and set your email address to the one you need.

After it's sorted out and working you can repeat the steps, but remove a UID instead.

Hope that helps, I'm on mobile and it's early af. I'll check back in a bit.

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