I've been fighting with my Sony WF-C510 for days.

I've tried it on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint. Same result every time: It connects successfully, but never shows up as an audio output device.

I even bought a USB Bluetooth dongle, thinking my laptop’s chipset was the problem... but nope. It still connects as a device, not a headset.

I’ve restarted Bluetooth services, switched from PulseAudio to PipeWire, and tried every "set-card-profile" trick from AI and forums, but nothing works.

Has anyone actually managed to get a Sony WF-C510 working properly on Linux?

It's clear this is purely Sony's fault for not caring about or supporting Linux drivers. Are they just ignoring the entire platform at this point?

Any workaround or success story would save my sanity.

Distros Tested: Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12-13, Mint 22 Issue: Connects, but no A2DP/HSP profile visible

Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !

🧵1/2

Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn't tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can't be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn't work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn't work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux

This was made for mobian with phosh. Not sure if it will work on other distros. You can always install a dct tool to decompile it and hand copy the opp-tables for the CPU and GPU or something for yours if this doesn't work.

This is also overclocked from 1.15 to 1.3 ghz on the CPU, and the GPU from the stock 4xx to 540 mghz. This was stable on my device even with the undervolt. This also adds some lower steps so the CPU can drop down to 200 mghz.

This overclock is a medium undervolt so it may or may not work. I highly recommend installing towboot, so you can boot the phone in mass storage mode in case it doesn't work. Back up your old .dtc file first so if it doesn't work, you can copy the old one back. It's in the boot partition under the allwinner folder a few folders in. You will see many files and one called sun50i-a64-pinephone-1.2.dts. You need to back up this file to your PC and rename the downloaded file to this by removing everything after the last dot.

On Linux I had to use the terminal to copy since it detects the boot directory of the pinephone as a root directory. File managers don't want to copy to it.

I couldn't change the memory clocks because that requires a lot of extra work. Mobian however comes with decent memory clocks around 540 mghz.

These overclocks help out the pinephone alot. Especially the GPU. It usually doesn't thermal throttle with this setup, and probably gets better battery life. Mobian is by far the distro I like the most I tried two or three. In addition to having the memory overclock out of the box, which the pine phone really needs, the phosh UI is fairly decent on the pinephone. I get a few days of standby battery life. I will release my own fork of mobian with the overclocks when I get it Inca more complete state. Currently working on implementing hardware acceleration for video decode. The pine phone only has a couple years of life left as networks in the U.S are moving away from 4G.

If you have any issues, chatGPT can probably help. I used it to find my way around the tools and files I needed to do this. I used an online hex convertor to create the voltage tables. The GPU performance with this is not terrible.

I played Minecraft java edition 1.7.10, with the lowest settings and 3 block render distance at 8-12 FPS. I can probably do some tweaks to improve this significantly. Installing a few mods like fast craft, lowering the resolution away from native, switching the java 8 from java 21. I just haven't had the chance yet. I did this by installing prism launcher. If anyone's is interested I will make a lightweight mod pack eventually with some tweaks to hopefully get this to 24 FPS and add a lot of cool little mods to add stuff. That is my goal. I might have to use 1 chunk render distance.

Feel free to hit me up or ask any questions if you feel like doing your own pinephone overclocking.

UPDATE:

I tried the new packages, and it installed all except one package (librsvg2-common), breaking my system.

DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!

UPDATE 2:

Anyone else facing issue with the aforementioned package, following command allowed me to get my stable system back and install rest of 6-v3 packages.

sudo mv /usr/share/doc/librsvg2-common/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/librsvg2-common/changelog.Debian.gz_BK

Currently looking for a good DAW to run on Linux. I used Ableton Live 11 Standard back on Windows, got it running decently on Fedora with Wine, but kind of want to explore some other options.

Before I used Live, LMMS was actually what I used first while I was learning. I never did anything too real with it so I'm not honestly too sure what it's capable of, but it also seems to be abandonware? Hasn't been updated since 2020, what's that about?

I'm not 100% dead set on using FOSS btw, for this anyways. It would definitely be a plus, but i'll use proprietary if it runs well on Linux and is good at what it does. Are there any other options I should check out or look into? I've heard pretty good things about ardour and bitwig but don't know too much about them.

In all GUI text editors, web browsers and IDE's you can move a cursor:

• left/right arrows - move by char;
• ctrl+left/right - move by word;
• home/end - move to start/end of line.

Add Shift to any of above combination and everything you jumped through now is selected and you can: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X,Delete to copy/cut/delete selection.

Also, you can Ctrl+Delete and Ctrl+Backspace to delete a next/previous word.

Also, you can Ctrl+Home/End to jump to start of first line or end of last line.

I want this to work when I type in a command in my Terminal.

Is it possible in Linux? It's a vanilla experience in Windows+Powershell, thanks to default PSReadlLine extension. It works both in conhost.exe and in Windows Terminal, but doesn't work in WT + cmd.exe, which makes me think it's PSReadLine which is responsible for this technological perfection.

"But you can't copy with Ctrl+C, it's..." - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.

I'm not bound to any distro or terminal application, but right now I don't see these incredible text editing techniques working even in Ubuntu+Powershell+PSReadLine, to say nothing about the Bash. I've tried installing WezTerm, but it doesn't have text selection either, at least by default. And I'm inclined to think it has nothing to do with terminal emulators at all, since it works in conhost.exe+Powershell.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/54075197

ArchLinux doesn't boot past the bootloader

I'm able to get to the BIOS on my desktop. But when greeted by the boot loader to choose between Arch or Arch fallback, after choosing, I lose display.

Sometimes I can get display, but its not consistent. Draining my computers power by unplugging the power cord and holding the power button works sometimes. Sometimes a simple reboot will work.

I have an Asus b550m-plus motherboard. It was working great with Arch until recently.

Edit: it uses by press e at the boot loader then putting nomodeset at the end, but the display is choppy compared to when its able to boot without it.

I'm using the systemd-boot loader.

I have a 6900xt GPU. The post I cross posted has more information in the comments. One common error I'm getting is:

probe with driver amdgpu failed with error -22

Here is what my GPU is:

lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'

09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT] (rev c0) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 232c Kernel modules: amdgpu 09:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio Controller

This is my systemd-boot /boot/loader/entries/ -- conf file:

# Created by: archinstall
# Created on: 2025-07-06_15-37-58
title   Arch Linux (linux)
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options cryptdevice=PARTUUID=fg45ehg45-uj675-j76-j76-56756uj56j6:root root=/dev/mapper/root zswap.enabled=0 rootflags=subvol=@ rw rootfstype=btrfs splash

I need to aggregate a lot of details on what I've tried so far, but I figured I'd make this post now since I have time over lunch.

I purchased a used Thinkpad Yoga X1 gen 6 from a university surplus sale. Intending to move away from the data hoarder that is Microsoft I of course installed Linux. I decided on Linux Mint since I haven't touched Linux in about a decade and I've forgotten everything.

Everything that I need to use correctly for job applications, printing, etc is working just fine, but much of the reason I bought the yoga is to use the Wacom stylus pen for drawing and taking notes.

It was working in Windows, but now does not seem to be recognized in Linux. It's odd since the touchscreen does work.

I did find this post which I will try to follow tonight: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxOnThinkpad/comments/yvmr1s/how_to_get_your_wacom_pen_working_on_a_thinkpad/

If anyone has had experience with this or has some advice for a new newbie, I'd very much appreciate it!

Whoops... :-)

I've been using Bazzite for a couple of months now. I've been experiencing a few problems when connecting my PC to my Wifi router.

I've been noticing a few websites being extremely slow, such as reddit. I've also noticed that Flatpak downloads are extremely slow, with speeds being in two digits of....kb/s! Now, I can mitigate this issue by doing either two things:

1. Using a VPN
2. Connecting my PC to my mobile hotspot, which is connected to my same router.

This is puzzling, because if there's an issue with my ISP, it would show up on my phone as well. If there's an issue with my built in WiFi adapter, then it would show up when connecting to my hotspot.

I have absolutely no idea what's going on, could someone help me? I tried changing DNS servers, reseting the network configs, flushing DNS cache, non of these seem to mitigate the issue.

One thing I've yet to try is connecting via Ethernet, because as of right now I don't have a good Ethernet cable with the right length, and I'm gonna order one day and try it.

If anyone has any other suggestions, I would appreciate it

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ml/post/38167597

I was browsing Lemmy in the morning as I usually do. And I stumbled upon a post called "To all EU/Europe Open Source/Linux Enthusiasts", which is basically a philosophical post about someone proposing a plan to push Linux phones to the mainstream. But I noticed several factual errors, which is fine (please do your own research before you post something), but I also noticed one single piece of information that's missing: allowing local e-shops, like the green alien one, to resell your Linux device on their site.

Leave your thoughts on this down below.

Hi, I have an old HP Notebook - 14-an018au, which has 4gb ddr3 ram and runs windows 10 on a 10 ish year old 1tb harddrive. This is a secondary computer, but it has a lot of old files from when I was like 13 years old that I want to backup, but I also have like 300gb of space taken up on the harddrive. So things like my chrome history, app settings, and unique files I would want to keep, but the large apps themselves I don't want to keep. Also this computer is impossible to work on with its current operating system, so something which is a quick solution please.

And also, what distributions would you recommend that would a) work on this old computer and b) might be kind of fun to mess around with, as a secondary device

Anyway thanks

Hi guys, basically as the title says. Did any of you guys tried any of the solutions around for this? What is the best fix for this in your opinion?

Edit: Found it! the best way is to install your GTK theme as a flatpak so it is either that your theme is available in Flathub which is rarely the case or running this to automate this process for you

Hello, not much of a Linux user (situations like this are why)...but long story short, I'm trying to rehab a ROG PC from 2018.

I made a bootable USB of the current Mint distro, but booting leads to a black screen. I tried compatibility mode, but the boot process hangs on "EFI stub: Measured initrd data into PCR 9"

The PC came with an Nvidia 2080, but it's actually a 980ti. Also there isn't integrated graphics here. Any troubleshooting advice would be cool

Update: if I select recovery mode then 'resume normal boot', Mint 21 works. However, this computer will be a gift to a tech-illiterate person, so that level of input will not suffice. I installed the recommended (and correct) Nvidia driver, but the results are the same

Basically, I have a 2014 computer with 4 GB of RAM, and I'm wondering whether to use Arch, EndeavourOS, or openSUSE. I really want to try Rice and use Hyprland, but that will be my second distro. The computer is a secondary one, so it's no big deal if it breaks.

Edit: I now use arch btw

Hi guys, I know I can easily make a launcher file in ~/.local/share/applications for it but I don't know what arguments to put in Exec= line to launch a specific profile. I know it is possible but I don't know how to find it

Greetings. I'm not sure if should ask this here or on a MacOS specific community, mods feel free to remove this post if necessary.

Basically I'm getting a new SRE job. At my current (future ex) SRE job, i had all the freedom to have a Archlinux KDE workstation, that is incredibly comfortable to use as i'm also dailying it on my personal workstation.

However this new company gave me the workstation choice between either a Windows machine without WSL (yes i know), either a Macbook m4. (Edit for clarity : i cannot change the OS because of central management software)

I chose the macbook for the battery life and being able to keep it at least Unix (with zsh always on hand), but i have no prior experience on using mac os.

What are the various software that you would recommend to a KDE user to have on its mac ? I know only about brew.sh the new apple container thingy, and some various fan control app. Is there a way to have Dophin as file manager, or something similar ? (IE a file manager with an integrated folder-following terminal ? General tips and tricks you may want to share?

Thank you for your attention and have a great day