$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

If there's some Lenovo EU rep with enough budget for their department, this person should really be contracted to fix the audio from their laptops one by one. This seemed to take 2 weeks with a dedicated person and remote access but debugging with access to the device could be much faster!

I heard from a frontier coder at deepmind that Gemini, whilst not great at novel frontier coding, is actually pretty good at debugging. Wonder if someone is going to automate a bug bounty pipeline with AI tools.

This has been an old problem with Legion laptops. All this will be available free of cost to everyone! Mad respect for people who are pledging their own money and the person who fixed it.

Also, Lenovo Legion Pro 7* are not cheap (not that this would have been justified for cheap laptops).

Shame on Lenovo/<big company> who should have fixed this years ago.

I would stay away from anything that's using Nvidia, especially a laptop.

Funnily enough the sound doesn't work properly on Windows 10 on this laptop. In exactly same manner as on Linux. Did open source win again?

Wow... one solution is of course to deactivate these. Which is what I did for my Legion 5 Gen 10. Speakers don't seem to be much in use these days anyway.

Still, I didn't expect this amount of custom configuration for my new laptop. Most importantly Bluetooth sound and getting Nvidia driver support. For Bluetooth I ended up writing my own tiny daemon. While driver support exists there seems to be a race condition somewhere between Pipewire, systemd and the bluetooth drivers. And for Nvidia drivers I ended up using the CUDA driver repository which is curiously only available for Debian 12.

Many of these firmware blobs are non redistributable, if you require this blob, you should grab it and back it up. I know a lot of firwmare can't be legally distributable in linux-firmware.

Lenovo may not be as friendly as IBM to its opensource.

Can someone explain exactly what's happening here? https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga/i...

It seems like there's a lot of personal information being asked for / thrown around... including a debit/credit card number?

Is there no better way to handle the bounty payment?

Maybe related:

- https://gist.github.com/felipelalli/6179aac72735fd35ea3a9854... - https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/issues/1039

Intel HDA was supposed to be a better standard than the AC'97 it was meant to replace. IMHO the blame lies solely on the codec makers for not working with the default settings (they can add additional functionality, but the base audio I/O should work with a generic HDA driver.)