demm It is the sound and graphics chip of the macbook

The GPU is mentioned in the sysinfo, that I attached.

I am running the rest of your tasks soon and report then back

    I found a few post regarding that hardware & sound stopping, seems the needed drivers were moved out of the kernel lately, those cards seem to need sof-firmware with recent kernels.
    I will add sof-firmware to the next ISO, please test again in live mode then. Adding sof-firmware in live mode might not get the right modules loaded.

    Selecting lang=de_DE in the systemd-boot parameter yields German plasma, and US keybindings.

    Pipewire and Wireplumber are both running fine.

    The need to change kvantum separately, considering all the other KDE distributions come with that "Global theme" feature and this is essentially suggesting, well global theming, seems unfortunate.

    The issue seems to me, that Midna dark has no Application Style attached to it.

    So I guess, applying one to it, could be sufficient.
    I consider a dark style essential to any OS.

    Selecting 100x scaling and then logging out causes this warning

    It then brings me to sddm and let's me relogin without a problem.

    (I like the blue accents in the sddm theme, by the way.
    Nice touch)

    Then, it brings me to the desktop, this time without a wallpaper, just a black screen and the welcome widget.

    Calamares looks just as before with normal scaling.

    Breeze dark is part of the default install (and is maintained), if switching to Global theme midna-dark fails to switch all, then it certainly is time to remove.
    What distro works well with the laptop? Does it need older mesa? X only?

      demm Garuda works just fine.

      They are surely using X still, I can look for mesa.

        So, I am writing this now from the desktop.

        The inactive font looks very thin to me, its almost unreadable.

        lang=de_DE leads also on this system to US keybindings.

        The installer shows no "next" item at this point:

        Again, a lot of the font looks so thin, that I am not confident, I even checked all the boxes, and filled all the fields.

        I am also quite confused, since the lower bar suggests it allows for navigation, and clicking on it reveals something like a little bit of a virtual keyboard.

        • demm replied to this.

          Back to the Macbook again:

          Sound is now broken on Garuda now as well. I am wondering, why the kernel team has decided to ban this relatively widespread chip, while I guess I can just google this.

          Its a bummer, especially considering that systems, who were not involved in the installation procedure, will likely not have any sound on portable systems.

          I am using a SSD in an USB enclosure, to jump between different devices with my main OS.
          Having drivers outside of the kernel means I can always run into systems, who might just lack certain drivers.

          Anyways; https://paste.ee/p/Q3bd5

          What else can I test?

          • demm replied to this.

            shalokshalom Sound is now broken on Garuda now as well

            Please test that install, and add sof-firmware (if that is what is called in Garuda too).

              shalokshalom it reveals something like a little bit of a virtual keyboard.

              Make sure to read the notes (first post) about known issues.

              The installer shows no "next" item at this point:

              Of course, no password is accepted until verified. Next will only activate once the second password field is filled out & matching.

                Ah, now i see this password input field right next to it.

                The whole page looks pale and its almost invisible, since it looks very much as if this line is just the continuation of the first password input line.

                I will test Garuda with whatever is needed for that soundchip.

                Thanks

                Installing sof-firmware on Arch did not solve the issue. Interestingly, it changed the "mute" symbol in the systray to an actual, normal speaker symbol.

                But clicking it, reveals this and there is still no sound:

                So it lies somewhere else in the stack, or sof-firmware just needs to be configured.

                First full ISO is uploaded. There is a move to linux 5.19.12, no issue found with that kernel here, but there are reports if some intel systems failing with this kernel (i915), so if you have such a system, please check if Live boots.

                Some very old network firmwares are no longer included in this ISO, should not effect anyone.
                KDE Telepathy packages are no longer included on a full ISO, they are unmaintained and full of bugs, Neochat is included instead (Matrix client).
                https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2022.10.01-x86_64.iso
                SHA256SUM:

                b48196744250e43ded5f5d0ff4a3aba757781f063948fea305de017c529ed4b0  KaOS-2022.10.01-x86_64.iso

                  When I switch to new kernel (5.19.12) wlan isn't auto connected restored after suspend to ram.

                  inxi -N
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169

                  Testing of the current ISO can stop, there were reports a few days already that a major regression occurred with linux 5.19.12, that is now fixed/reverted, see:
                  https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4537960.html
                  New ISO with linux 5.19.13 will be later today or early tomorrow.

                  Second full ISO is up, this should be the final ISO for the October release.
                  This means that Plasma 5.26RC will be used, not common to go with an RC, but tomorrow 5.26 final will be tagged, not many changes with what is in the RC for KaOS, needed patches have been applied.
                  Changes from the first full ISO from 3 days ago:

                  • Linux 5.19.13 with the intel i915 fixes
                  • poppler 22.10.0 + plus all the needed rebuilds
                  • stacer is patched to open with systemd services tab & use a light theme (so it fits KaOS)
                  • Calamares no longer shows zfs as an option for automated partitioning with BIOS systems
                  • systemd 251.5
                  • zfs 2.1.6
                  • pacman patched for bash 5.2 changes (so makepkg will work)

                  https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaos-test/files/iso/KaOS-2022.10.04-x86_64.iso

                  SHA256SUM:

                  e160e677d7d587de687d057108d762dce32b80a9567c84b6939b527b944f910f  KaOS-2022.10.04-x86_64.iso