Re: [tlug] linux installed on lenovo ideapad

[CL <cr.lipton@example.com>]

Title: Re: [tlug] linux installed on lenovo ideapad

    On 10/28/24 01:37, steve wrote:

On 10/25/24 19:52, steve wrote:

This is just a note on an install I did today.  I don't know if anyone will be interested but...I just installed 24.04.1 LTS on a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15.6" Touchscreen and so far I'm really happy with the result.  Last week was a different experience.

I have to take back some of what I said.  I'm having problems with suspend not working and keyboard not working after machine suspends/unspends.  Keyboard is fixed  but I'm still trying to figure out why machine won't stay suspended. :(

Steve S.

    Welcome to my monkey house.  My "Washington's Axe" white box (2008
    case, 2013 motherboard, 2017 video card, 2015 AMD Athlon am2 CPU,
    two HDDs of indeterminate age) decided to finally give up.  Only
    eleven years out of a motherboard?  Sheesh.  I blame Trump.
    
    I replaced it with an ASUS PN-52B non-Windows motherboard AMD Ryzen
    5600H (mobile processor with Radeon graphics) NUC, with 4x4K output
    (but, I'm still using my 1080p screen, right now) and 64Gb of
    memory.  I put the O/S -- Kubuntu 24.04 LTS -- on a 500Gb NAND and
    have my mail and work save to a 4Tb internal SSD.  I actually
    installed Debian 12 KDE first but it just didn't feel good.  I did
    not do a legacy install as I wanted to install WIN in a VirtualBox
    and needed the setup to pass through.  Someone else asked -- I
    "think" Wayland installed itself automatically.
    
    Suspend / unsuspend issues became immediately apparent.  When I
    Googled for solutions, one of the responses I got was that this is a
    known issue on *buntu + KDE desktop since about v.12 on "some"
    systems.  I found ... then lost, and will have to spend time digging
    around to find ... a set of instructions to diagnose and repair the
    issue.  But, a supposed fix is out there on line.  IIRC, the search
    term was something like "screen blanks then turns back on" which is
    the issue I am having.  Everything appears to suspend properly, the
    screen goes blank for about ten seconds, then turns itself back on. 
    Checking CPU activity doesn't show anything that should wake the
    screen.  I have WIN 11 running in a VirtualBox and it suspends
    properly, leaving the Plasma toolbar visible and the remainder of
    the screen blank.  For the time being, I have been manually turning
    the screen on and off between uses.  If someone else has tripped and
    fallen over the same set of instructions, a link would be helpful.
    
    Like an idiot, I accepted the recommendation of fcitx5 for my
    bilingual input.  I am pretty sure I used ibus on my previous box
    and will pull the fcitx setup out by its roots and start over.  
    
    CL