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Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What I hate about Valve's Linux efforts is how slow they are with upstreaming their changes. I think there are still some LCD fixes not in the vanilla kernel.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    The fix that they applied wouldn't work as a general solution, it would break other things.

    This commit implements their solution in a 'If Steam Deck then ' kind of way so it will resolve the Steam Deck issue on mainline without breaking other things.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Do you actually want "fast" AI-sloppy maintenance/nonsense, where customers would get even more issues eventually, and ruin the reputation?

    Adequate verification and careful, responsible attitude to changes requires time.
    I am sorry, but I have no idea how you may "hate" accountability.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, don't rush into things. But when you have a fix that's just a few lines that's languishing in your repositories for years something's up.

    I'm not talking specifically about this issue. There are several drivers for the Steam Deck controller and the thermal system that I have to compile myself to be able to properly run a vanilla kernel on my Steam Deck LCD. There has been more than enough time to fix the stuff.

    Still glad that it's open source so that I can just grab everything I need. But it would be nice if I could just forget about it and find all fixes in my kernel half a year or so after they've been successfully in production in SteamOS.

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