Linux Kernel and BSD Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 24, 2025

• Tom's Hardware ☛ Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month

  A motivated Lenovo Legion Pro 7 (16IAX10H) owner has successfully gotten their system’s speaker issues fixed after setting up a bug bounty program on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub.

• Graphics Stack

  • [ANNOUNCE] wayland-protocols 1.46

    wayland-protocols 1.46 is now available.
    
    
    This release adds a new appendix and clarifications for
    color-management-v1, a missing protocol error for color-representation-v1,
    and new experimental work-in-progress input-method and text-input
    protocols.
    

• BSD

  • Dan Langille ☛ Test run – moving to a SATADOM based zpool (zroot) using zfs snapshot and send | recv

    Yesterday I managed to move a zroot zpool from larger drives to smaller drives using snapshot, send, recv. Today, I’m doing the same thing. Yet, what is different? using serial numbers in some partition labels moving to SATADOM This really is a dry-run for when I do this on my production host, r730-01 – apart from the whole moving-to-smaller-drives part.

  • Dan Langille ☛ Switching between BIOS and UEFI (and vice versa) on a Dell R730

    These are some notes I want to keep handy. They will help me switch back and forth between UEFI and BIOS booting.